The Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located off Saint John, Virgin Islands. The clear waters surrounding Saint...
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expanded in 2001, when the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument was created. While Saint John does not have an airport, the island is served by Cyril E...
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Buck Island Reef National Monument protects Buck Island, a small, uninhabited 176-acre (712,000 m²) island about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the northeast...
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the Virgin Islands are the coral reefs. These coral reefs can be located between the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John. These coral reefs have...
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The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) southeast of Florida...
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park. This protection was expanded in 2001, when the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument was created. In 2006, The Trust for Public Land purchased...
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(2008). Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument: A Resource Assessment (PDF) (Report). Washington, DC: National Parks...
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access to the monument. About 132,000 square miles (340,000 km2) of the monument are part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve...
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Kingman Reef is grouped as part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. In January 2009, Kingman Reef was designated a marine national monument. The...
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is a group of unorganized, mostly unincorporated United States Pacific Island territories managed by...
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Hassel Island, and many acres of coral reef. There are several national park sites, such as the Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National...
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Atoll (redirect from Atoll reef)
volcanic island subsides, the coral fringing reef becomes a barrier reef that is detached from the island. Eventually, reef and the small coral islets on...
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2020. "Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument". National Park Service. Retrieved January 24, 2009. "Waco Mammoth National Monument". National Park...
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look into the future and ensure continuation of coral reef communities. The Mariana Arc of Fire National Wildlife Refuge (Volcanic Unit) – an arc of 21...
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of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. (The territory of the Northern Mariana Islands has an affiliated area but not an official...
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Saint Croix (redirect from Williams Delight, United States Virgin Islands)
Croix; Taino: Ay Ay) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated...
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Conservation Program National Coral Reef Monitoring Program NOAA Coral Reef Watch Digital Coast "About". NERRA. Retrieved 2021-07-31. "National Estuarine Research...
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Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman. Capitol Reef National Park was designated a national monument on August 2, 1937, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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the monument, President George W. Bush noted that "the waters surrounding the atoll are the home of many rare species, including giant clams and reef sharks—as...
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notable reefs. Fringing reef Recreational dive sites Recreational diving Southeast Asian coral reefs The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Vidal...
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part of the National Wildlife Refuge system. Unlike most coral atolls, the lagoon on Jarvis is wholly dry. Jarvis is one of the Line Islands and for statistical...
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protecting corals and encouraging conservation. In 2001, the National Park Service established two national monuments – the Virgin Islands Coral Reef and the...
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Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the...
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Palmyra Atoll (redirect from Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge)
Island, is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati). It is located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands...
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(2019). "Chapter 7: Howland Island". Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Report for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, 2000–2017 (PIFSC Special...
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are: National Park of American Samoa, in American Samoa Buck Island Reef National Monument, in U.S. Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument...
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strong sunshine. The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with...
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contain reefs and a shipwreck that attract large numbers of snorkelers, divers, and boaters. The islands are surrounded by beautiful coral reef habitats...
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Midway Atoll (redirect from Midway Islands/History)
13,411 km2) of coral reef habitat. The Monument also includes the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge...
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Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The United States Census Bureau reports Necker Island's land...
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