Seven Wonders of the Underwater World

 Palau
 Belize Barrier Reef
 Great Barrier Reef
 Deep-Sea Vents
 Galápagos Islands
 Lake Baikal
 Northern Red Sea

Palau is an island country and a United States Associated State located in the western Pacific
Ocean. It is geographically part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's
population of around 21,000 is spread across 250 islands forming the western chain of
the Caroline Islands. The most populous island is Koror. The capital Ngerulmud is located
in Melekeok State on the nearby island of Babeldaob. The islands share maritime
boundaries with Indonesia, thePhilippines, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
he Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize, roughly 300
meters (980 ft) offshore in the north and 40 kilometers (25 mi) in the south within the country
limits.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900
individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area
of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral
Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Deep-Sea Vents A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from

which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found
near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart, ocean basins,
and hotspots.

The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of
the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 906 km (563 mi) west of continental Ecuador, of which
they are a part. The islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species.
Lake Baikal is the freshwater lake with greatest volume in the world, containing roughly 20%
of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water, and at 1,642 m (5,387 ft), the deepest. It is also
among the clearest of all lakes, and thought to be the world's oldest lake at 25 million years. It
is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.