The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 species of hard corals and dozens of other species.
A team aboard a research vessel owned by the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), a non-profit group based in California, used an underwater robot to explore the reef.
Known as Sebastian, the robot live-streamed video of the discovery on Sunday and posted it to YouTube.
Known as Sebastian, the robot live-streamed video of the discovery on Sunday and posted it to YouTube.
"To find a new half-a-kilometre tall reef in the offshore Cape York area of the well-recognised Great Barrier Reef shows how mysterious the world is just beyond our coastline," said SOI executive director Dr Jyotika Virmani.
At 500m (1,640ft) high, the reef is taller than New York's Empire State Building and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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