Sentences with phrase «sq km off»

Covering an area larger than the United Kingdom, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, made up of more than 2,900 coral reefs and 900 islands scattered over 344,400 sq km off the coast of Queensland in north - east Australia.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, the White House said, an action that will ban commercial fishing from more than 582,500 sq miles (1.5 million sq km) of the Pacific Ocean.
R. Gates: yep, no doubt the MacKenzie is delivering enough heat into the Beaufort; and the lower latitude Beaufort itself likely contains enough heat to melt the entire 2.2 M sq km of ice extent floes off.
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