Marine

The Jordanian coastline covers about 27 km at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, which extends for about 180 km off the Jordanian shore in the north of the Straits of Tiran in the south. It has an average width of 20 km and an average depth of 800 m.

The Gulf of Aqaba consists of a series of embayments, each comprising comparatively similar communities including: rocky shore, reef flat, reef face, fore reef, sandy shore, sandy bottom, and seagrass ecosystems. There is a discontinuous series of coral reefs and reef flats, never more than 150m wide, over a length of 13km.