Saturday, July 2, 2011

HOW WIDE IS CORAL TRIANGLE

There are at least 5 countries that were covered by the popular CORAL TRIANGLE. They are the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.  CORAL TRIANGLE is a geographical term because if you were to look the geographical settings of the 5 countries it forms a triangular shape.
image from wikipedia.org

Now let's talk how wide it is. CORAL TRIANGLE covers 5.7 million square kilometers of ocean waters and houses 3,000 species of fish only. That's why many fishing boats are visiting these waters everyday.