Batt Reef
Batt Reef is a coral reef off Port Douglas in Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia.Geography
Batt Reef is centred at and is part of the Great Barrier Reef.
The reef is about 18 km long by 5 km wide, lying northwest to southeast, at the northern side of the Trinity Passage that leads from the inner Reef channel from Trinity Bay to the Pacific Ocean. The north-west tip of the reef lies east of the Low Islets which are in turn east of Newell Beach and northeast of Port Douglas.History
The area received a high level of media attention following the death of The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin on 4 September 2006 while filming an underwater documentary entitled Ocean's Deadliest.
