Arlington Reef is one of the major coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef in the

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. The reef is located roughly 40 km north-east of

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. The Australian Institute of Marine Science first survey the corals of Arlington Reef in 1987 and has been subsequently monitoring them since then.

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