List of reefs
Name Location Notes
Amazon Reef Off the coast of French Guiana and northern Brazil The Amazon Reef ( also referred to as the Amazonian Reef ) is an extensive coral and sponge reef system , located off the coast of French Guiana and northern Brazil . It is one of the largest reef systems in the world known to exist , with scientists estimating its length to be over 600 miles ( 970 km ) long , and covering over 3,600 square miles ( 9,300 km2 ) of area
Angria Bank Off the coast of Vijaydurg , Maharashtra , India
Apo Reef Mindoro Strait , Philippines This is the Philippines ' largest reef and the world 's second-largest contiguous coral reef system
Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park Cozumel , Mexico Part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
Bar Reef Kalpitiya peninsula , Sri Lanka This coral reef has more biodiversity than in any of the waters of India . It is one of only a few pristine systems in Sri Lanka
Belize Barrier Reef Belize This is the second biggest coral reef system on Earth , the largest being the Great Barrier Reef . It is an around 1/3 of the 900-km-long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
Benares Shoals Peros Banhos atoll , northern Chagos Archipelago
Coral Triangle Mainly Indonesia Called the Amazon of the seas , this is a large area defined within a triangular area in the waters of Indonesia , Malaysia , Papua New Guinea , Philippines , Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste
Daintree Reef Coral Sea , Queensland , Australia Named after geologist and photographer Richard Daintree , this system is adjacent to the Daintree Rainforest
Darwin Mounds Off the northwest coast of Scotland Located around 1,000 m ( 3,280 feet ) below the surface , this system consists of a big field of sand mounds
Filippo Reef 450 km east of Starbuck Island in the Pacific Ocean
Flinders Reef Off Moreton Island in the Coral Sea , Queensland , Australia
French Frigate Shoals Northwestern Hawaiian Islands This is a 32-km-long , crescent-shaped reef maintained by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a field station within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
Great Barrier Reef Coral Sea , Queensland , Australia Known as the largest in the world
Isla Pérez Gulf of Mexico
Kingman Reef North Pacific Ocean Roughly triangular in shape
Lansdowne Bank Coral Sea This is one of the biggest banks on Earth
Lyra Reef Papua New Guinea
Manuel Luis Reefs Brazil The largest coral reef of South America
Reefs
This is an incomplete list of notable reefs.