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Surf’s eternal thunder booms against Belize’s 175-mile-long barrier reef, second in length only to the great reef that guards Australia’s northeast coast. The rampart- actually a series of reefs ranging up to 60 miles offshore- separates shallow waters from the Caribbean depths of a mile or more. National Geographic, January 1972

(Source: cratered, via donttalktomeplease)