STS033-76-43
The bank of shallow water around Providence and Cerf Islands has the appearance of a true platform reef, although recent studies have shown that there is very little living coral on its seaward margins, while the surface is dominated by seagrass [STS033-76-43, 1989].
This is one of 84 astronaut photographs that appear
in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs, published by the University of California Press.
