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The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) (roughly / p ɑː p ɑː ˈ h ɑː n aʊ m oʊ k u ˌ ɑː k eɪ. ə / [2]) is a World Heritage listed U.S. national monument encompassing 583,000 square miles (1,510,000 km 2) of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Maro Reef (Hawaiian: Nalukākala - "surf that arrives in combers") is a largely submerged coral atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands It was discovered in 1820 by Captain Joseph Allen of the ship Maro , after whose ship the reef was named.
Waimea Canyon State Park encompasses 1,866 acres (7.5 km 2) and is a popular tourist attraction on the island.It provides a wilderness area with numerous hiking trails. It can be accessed from Waimea on Hawaiʻi state road 550, which is 18 miles long and leads up to Kōkeʻe State Pa
Titus Canyon, Death Valley, California (also in Death Valley: Golden, Mosaic and Natural Bridge Canyons) Virgin River Gorge , Arizona and Utah Waimea Canyon , Hawaii
The south shore of Molokai boasts the longest fringing reef in the U.S. and its holdings—nearly 25 mi (40 km) long. [10] Molokai is part of the state of Hawaii and located in Maui County, Hawaii, except for the Kalaupapa Peninsula, which is separately administered as Kalawao County.
Many roads and bridges were washed out in Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. Major flooding damaged or destroyed about 400 miles of roads in Death Valley National Park, which ...
Although Kings Canyon National Park was designated as such in 1940, it subsumed General Grant National Park, which had been established on October 1, 1890, as the United States' fourth national park. [77] [78] [79] (BR) [80] Kobuk Valley: Alaska: December 2, 1980
Hawaii had 2,109 preventable hospital admissions per 100,000 Medicaid and Medicare patients in 2021, a far fall from the national average of 4,378, according to the U.S. News and World Report ...