Title The Great Barrier Reef of Australia : its products and potentialities / by W. Saville-Kent

Published London : W.H. Allen, [1893]

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Description xii, 387 pages, 64 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm regular print Contents Includes index Summary p.321; Method of catching turtle by sucking fish; p.227; Aborigines employed in beche-de-mer fisheries; p.328; Method of capturing dugong, description of spear used; p.314; Remains of fishweir at Darnley Island; p.124; Native names for Torres Strait Islands Notes "Containing- an account, ... of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, beche-de-mer, other fishing industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian great barrier region" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Includes index Subject Coral reef and islands Coral reef biology -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef Coral reef ecology -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef Coral reefs and islands -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Coral reefs and islands -- Australia -- Queensland. Coral reefs and islands. Corals -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef Corals -- Australia -- Queensland. Corals. Fisheries -- Australia -- Queensland. Fisheries -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Fisheries. Marine animals -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef Marine animals -- Australia -- Queensland. Marine animals -- Australia. Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Natural history. Oyster fisheries -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Trepang fisheries -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Trepang fishing -- Australia, Northern SUBJECT Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056600 LC no. 15012325

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