Wave swept reef with hard and soft coral at Rurbas Island, Biak West Papua, Indonesia

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A shallow, wave swept reef at Rurbas Island, West Papua, Indonesia. In such areas, fragile corals cannot survive the pounding waves and so any growth tends to be of low-lying robust corals.

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Size: 5620px × 3733px
Location: Rurbas, West Papua, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Matthew Oldfield Underwater Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: coral, indonesia, irian, jaya, marine, ocean, papua, reef, sea, shallow, sunlight, tropical, underwater, waves, west