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  2. Island Beach State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Most of the park encompasses the former borough of Island Beach. The park is the largest reserve of undeveloped barrier island in New Jersey and one of the largest in the United States. [2] The park is divided into two areas. The Island Beach Northern Natural ...

  3. Sea Turtle, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The number of cold-stuns was so large that the organization had to store the animals at the South Padre Island Convention Centre. [11] Climate change is an emerging threat against sea turtles, and Sea Turtle, Inc. plans to be better equipped for similar cold stun events in the future, including constructing a dedicated cold-stun room. [10]

  4. List of New Jersey state parks - Wikipedia

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    New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.

  5. Padre Island National Seashore - Wikipedia

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    A program to re-establish a nesting beach for Kemp's ridley sea turtles on Padre Island was begun in 1978. In 1992, the first two turtles from the program returned to Padre Island beach to lay their eggs. The number of Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests on Padre Island has increased ever since with 28 being found in 2005.

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  7. South Padre Island, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Due to the island being next to the ocean, temperatures above 100 °F (37.8 °C) are not common. South Padre Island went down to at least 25 °F (−4 °C) during the 2021 Texas freeze. Due to the fact that South Padre Island is surrounded by water, precipitation is a little higher than cities farther inland in the Rio Grande Valley. In March ...

  8. Padre Island - Wikipedia

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    Padre Island is the second-largest island by area in the contiguous United States, after Long Island in New York on the Atlantic Coast. It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [2] [3]: 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [4] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi, in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south.

  9. North Padre Island - Wikipedia

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    The northernmost part of the island to the Kleberg County line is part of the city of Corpus Christi. Padre Island was once one island —today it is two and referred as North Padre Island, and South Padre Island. Padre Island National Seashore welcomed 674,704 visitors in 2020. Padre Island National Seashore, (PINS) is a national park that ...