Cod Hole

{{Short description|Dive site in Queensland, Australia}}

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Cod Hole is one of the best known dive sites in the world and is located on the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia on ribbon reef number 10.{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=Neville|author2=Marsh, Nigel|title=Diving Australia: A Guide to the Best Diving Down Under|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|date=2004|chapter=Lizard Island|isbn=962-593-311-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkfjhkmkkA0C|accessdate=2008-06-19}} It is notable for and is named after the dozen or so potato cod that live there. The sanctioned feeding of these fish and number of visitors to the site has also made it a focal point in the debate over reef management.{{cite journal|last=Quinn|first=NJ|author2=Kojis, BL|year=1990|title=Are divers destroying the Great Barrier Reef's Cod Hole? |journal=In: Jaap, WC (Ed). Advances in Underwater Science...90. Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences Tenth Annual Scientific Diving Symposium. |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/9613 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709075217/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/9613 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 July 2012 |accessdate=2012-01-24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lizardisland.net.au/research/potato_cod.htm|title=Potato Cod|publisher=Lizard Island Research Station|accessdate=2008-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719090743/http://www.lizardisland.net.au/research/potato_cod.htm|archive-date=2008-07-19|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last=Orams|first=Mark|title=Marine tourism: development, impacts and management|publisher=Routledge|date=1999|pages=27|isbn=0-415-19572-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sSruCNy1HHAC|accessdate=2008-06-19}}