U.S. Drops Bombs on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Posted by feww on July 21, 2013
Headline News July 21, 2013
- Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week when a training exercise went wrong, the U.S. Navy said.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system made up of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometers and covering an area of about 344,400 square kilometers. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, east of Australia.
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