Phoenix Islands Protected Area
A vast, remote South Pacific protected seascape containing coral atolls, submerged reefs, deep ocean and numerous seamounts within an unusually intact oceanic ecosystem.
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A vast, remote South Pacific protected seascape containing coral atolls, submerged reefs, deep ocean and numerous seamounts within an unusually intact oceanic ecosystem. It gives readers a rare open-ocean example in which deep-sea topography, remote atolls, coral ecosystems and pelagic migration routes are protected as one connected seascape.
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It gives readers a rare open-ocean example in which deep-sea topography, remote atolls, coral ecosystems and pelagic migration routes are protected as one connected seascape.
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