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It was claimed in 1859 by the United States Guano Company, under the name "Dangers Rock," along with a number of other islands. [6] The claim was made under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856, although there is no evidence that guano existed or was ever mined on Kingman Reef.
Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge was officially established on January 18, 2001. On January 6, 2009, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument was established, which includes Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge within its boundaries.
Their jurisdiction, originally assigned to several agencies, was unified in 1933 under the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior. Kingman Reef, coral reef, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Northern Line Islands, west-central Pacific Ocean.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A December 29, 1934, Executive Order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Kingman Reef under the control and jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy, in immediate charge of the 14th Naval District and, on February 14, 1941, he issued another Executive Order making Kingman Reef a U.S. national defense area and prohibiting foreign planes and surface ...
Kingman Reef, uninhabited reef, less than 1 sq mi (2.6 sq km), central Pacific, one of the Line Islands, 1,075 mi (1,730 km) SW of Honolulu. It was discovered by Americans in 1798 and annexed by the United States in 1922.
Kingman Reef: The US annexed the reef in 1922. Its sheltered lagoon served as a way station for flying boats on Hawaii-to-American Samoa flights during the late 1930s. There are no terrestrial plants on the reef, which is frequently awash, but it does support abundant and diverse marine fauna and flora.
Kingman Reef encompasses approximately 2.6 acres of emergent reef and nearly 483,713 acres of submerged lands. Kingman Reef and surrounding waters out to 12 nauti-cal miles are currently managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as National Wildlife Refuge as a fully protected biological reserve.
