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Black coral

During the late 1970s and 1980s New Zealand scientist Ken Grange surveyed the marine ecology of the fiords. He was the first to recognise that underwater Fiordland was a unique habitat, and he has worked to ensure the protection of its marine communities. He is pictured here inspecting a colony of black coral, whose growth rate he monitored in one study. Living black corals are white.

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Paddy Ryan, Fiords – Underwater rock walls and basins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6338/black-coral (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paddy Ryan, published 2 March 2009.