Updated Aug 7, 2025 – 11.20am, first published at 5.00am
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They called it “the boneyard”: an underwater expanse of snapped-off coral fragments a kilometre offshore of Savusavu on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu.
“It looked like millions of pieces of broken bone,” says English photographer Nick Brandt of the reef destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016. “I hadn’t grasped until then how cyclones can also destroy the ocean bed.”
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