Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve is a 8440 km2 nature reserve in the Australian Coral Sea Islands Territory. Together with the Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve, from which it is separated by about 100 km of open ocean, it forms the Coral Sea Reserves Ramsar Site, designated on 16 August 2002, listing it under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance.
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