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  • Worse still, his trip out to the Great Barrier Reef with Helena was also off, and he'd have to cancel their reservation on Heron Island.

    Tin 2010

  • Capricorn-Bunker Group National Park (Queensland State) encompasses a terrestrial section and consists of four islands: Fairfax Island, a coral cay consisting of two small islands on an egg-shaped reef; Hoskyn Island similar to Fairfax, though not a cay; Heron Island, sand and broken coral on coral and rock formation; and Lady Musgrave Island, a cay surrounded by extensive coral reefs.

    Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia 2009

  • For local and visiting overseas scientists, field stations are operated by the University of Queensland (Heron Island), the University of Sydney (One Tree Island), James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).

    Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia 2009

  • The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 provides for the establishment, control, care and development of a Marine Park covering 98.5% of the Great Barrier Reef Region as defined in that Act. Parts of Green Island (1937) and Heron Island (1943) were gazetted as national parks under the State Forests and National Parks Act 1903-1948 (Queensland).

    Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia 2009

  • Biggar believed that he slept on Heron Island on the west side of Schoodic.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Biggar believed that he slept on Heron Island on the west side of Schoodic.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Worse still, his trip out to the Great Barrier Reef with Helena was also off, and he'd have to cancel their reservation on Heron Island.

    The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

  • Marks: Bring the peak of Heron Island on Damariscove and the "Whistler" on Seguin, 7 miles from Damariscove Island (this gives 21-fathom soundings) or Big White

    Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

  • That's where about half of the refugees from Heron Island appear to have resettled; the others are building on an island a bit downriver from the ruined rookery, near the Xcel Energy Riverside Plant in northeast Minneapolis.

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  • They were the last of nine heron chicks rescued in the aftermath of the May 22 tornado that ravaged parts of north Minneapolis and blew more than 180 nests from the treetops of Heron Island in the Mississippi River.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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