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Lighthouse Reef

Coastal and Reef Features

Lighthouse Reef is an atoll in the Caribbean Sea, the easternmost of the three atolls that make up the Belize Barrier Reef system, the other two being Turneffe Atoll and Glover's Reef. It lies about 80 kilometers southeast of Belize City, is of oblong shape roughly 35 kilometers long from north to south and about 8 kilometers wide, and encloses a shallow sandy lagoon of about 120 square kilometers with a depth of 2 to 6 meters. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
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Oceanography, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Oceanography via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Lighthouse Reef
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Belize, found in there.
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1. Lighthouse Reef (Wikipedia)
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    Lighthouse Reef is an atoll in the Caribbean Sea, the easternmost part of the Belize Barrier Reef and one of its three atolls, the other two being Turneffe Atoll and Glover's Reef.
  • Category: World Heritage Sites in Belize
    Wikipedia category: World Heritage Sites in Belize
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Wikidata: Lighthouse Reef
Wikidata Q21601149, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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