Barrier Reef, The Great, a slightly interrupted succession of coral reefs off the coast of Queensland, of 1200 m. extent, and 100 m. wide at the S., and growing narrower as they go N.; are from 70 to 20 m. off the coast, and protect the intermediate channel from the storms of the Pacific.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Barrie, James Matthew * Barrière, Jean François