The World’s Largest Marine Reserve — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

Notorious as the vicinity from which Amelia Earhart made her final distress calls, the equatorial Pacific between Hawaii and Fiji is becoming a little safer—at least for marine life. United States President Obama recently added a new protected area larger than the size of Alaska to the existing Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM), effectively making it the world’s largest sanctuary on land or sea.

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