Marine Biological Survey Report of the Fiji Great and North Astrolabe Reef, Ono kadavu - Fiji Barrier Reef Ecoregion, Fiji Islands

Abstract

Fiji is made up of approximately 300 islands and islets (100 inhabited), which contain only 180,000 km of land, while its Exclusive Economic Zone covers an estimated ocean area of 1.29 million km. While the exact number of coral reefs is currently unknown, it is believed that there are at least one thousand different reefs in Fiji's waters, including the following major types: fringing, platform, patch, barrier, oceanic ribbon, atolls, near atolls and drowned reefs. Fiji holds 3.52% of the world's coral reefs.