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Australia
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 Christmas
Island is a small green spec in the
Indian Ocean
with only 80 km of coastline. It is part of Western Australia.
The lush tropical forest contains millions of Red land crabs. Once a
year and for just one night all 15m females spawn 100,000 eggs each into
the ocean which visiting Whale
Sharks eat. Left to their own devices the crab eggs would hatch
immediately in the sea, swim around for 27 days then return to shore as
very small crabs and climb into the forest. The
Island
rises from the Java Trench and has a narrow ledge of tropical reef.
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