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Jan 1, 2008 · This is the second of two chapters on the coral reefs of the five US Line and Phoenix Islands, consisting of Baker, Howland and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, ; and Palmyra Atoll (Fig. 16.1).
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) is composed of seven remote islands, atolls, and reefs scattered across the Central Pacific Ocean, from Wake Atoll in the northwest to Jarvis Island in the southeast. The areas included in the PRIMNM are farther from human population centers than any other U.S. area.
CRED Shallow CTD Profiles; Kingman Reef, Pacific Remote Island Areas; Cruise: HI0803, Data Date Range: 20080406-20080407 (NODC Accession 0039382).
May 24, 2024 · Kingman Reef: reef in the North Pacific Ocean 1,720 km south of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa; Midway Islands: atoll in the North Pacific Ocean 2,335 km northwest of Honolulu near the end of the Hawaiian Archipelago, about one-third of the way from Honolulu to Tokyo;
Kingman Reef (6o24′ N, 162o 24′W), located near the northern end of the Line Island submarine ridge in the central Pacific (Fig. 1), is an atoll reef that encloses a deep lagoon but lacks emergent land. First discovered in 1798, Kingman was named after an American captain who next recorded its occurrence in 1853. Claimed over the following
To support NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) long-term goals for sustainable management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, towed-diver surveys (aka. towboard surveys) were conducted by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) as part of biennial Pacific Reef ...
Attachment. B. R. Calder and Masetti, G., “ U.S. Law of the Sea Cruise to Map the Western Flank of the Kingman Reef-Palmyra Atoll Section of the Line Islands, Equatorial Pacific Ocean ”, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping / Joint Hydrographic Center, Durham, NH, 2015.
