More than 5,000 square miles (14,000 km2) of coral reef habitat is found in the Hawaiian Islands from beyond Midway to the Island of Hawai'i.
Sources
- New Mapping Techniques Help Assess the Health of Hawaii's Coral Reefs (pubs.usgs.gov)
- https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/science/condition/pmnm/history.html (sanctuaries.noaa.gov)
- https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/textonly/CEQ/coralreef-factsheet.html (clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov)
- https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/286ed007-a4a3-4889-9e85-be20ffefa82f/content (scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu)
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