Big sponge, Xestospongia testudinaria, Raja Ampat

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The Raja Ampat archipelago encompasses nearly ten million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Raja Ampat means Four Kings, and consists of the four large islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool, plus hundreds of smaller islands. Located in the so-called Coral Triangle, the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja Ampat possibly hold the richest variety of species in the world.

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Size: 3900px × 5828px
Location: Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
Photo credit: © Amar and Isabelle Guillen - Guillen Photo LLC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: ampat, asia, big, haplosclerida, indonesia, irian, jaya, life, marine, ocean, open, pacific, papua, petrosiidae, raja, reef, salt, sea, southeast, sponge, testudinaria, tropical, underwater, water, west, xestospongia