Victory Bank

<h2 id="biodiversity">Biodiversity</h2>
<p>In 2021 the Living Oceans Foundation found that the Victory Bank had both a "high coral diversity" as well as high numbers of <a href="/facts/Millepora/grBJ75F9">Millepora</a>. The most common coral found is <a href="/facts/Acropora/kkqHWoPo">Acropora</a>. <a href="/facts/Seagrass/3DcPAsCr">Seagrass</a> was intermixed within the reef, although its mass was less than 1% of the substrate.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> It was also reported that despite a low diversity of fish, the Victory Bank holds the highest fish density (421.3 individuals/100 m2) and highest ratio of large fish to other fish. This is unlike other areas of the <a href="/facts/Great_Chagos_Bank/EI4v55Ly">Great Chagos Bank</a>.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060628195141/http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub171/">Indian Ocean Pilot (download PDF)</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Renee Carlton; Alexandra Dempsey; Katie Lubarsky; Mohammed Faisal Ph.D.; Samuel Purkis Ph.D. (2021). Chagos Archipelago Global Reef Expedition Final Report (PDF) (Report). Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. <a href="https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chagos-Archipelago-Final-Report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chagos-Archipelago-Final-Report.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Victory Bank