Sentences with phrase «several coastal lagoons»

Several coastal lagoons provide a rich habitat for wildlife and birds while the Barrier Reef is about 35 miles offshore from the mainland.

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Beginning in 2002, they spent several weeks each year searching the coastal cliffs and the dried - up lagoon for signs of a harbor that might have sheltered merchant ships like those depicted in Hatshepsut's wall carvings.

The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries.

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize) was put on the Danger List mainly because of the problem of mangrove cutting and excessive development in the property which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996 as the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, with offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries.