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The Pacific-Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex protects a long chain of islands known as the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, as well as Baker, Howland and Jarvis Islands and Johnston Atoll national wildlife refuges.
Millions of seabirds are dependent upon these island refuges for nesting sites. Among the birds nesting on these islands are Laysan and black-footed noddies, several species of shearwaters and petrels, red-tailed tropic birds, frigatebirds and three species of boobies.
This island chain includes rugged volcanic remnants in the southeast and sparsely vegetated low sandy islands in the northwest.
These islands and reefs also provide breeding and foraging habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal and the threatened Hawaiian green sea turtle. The more than 1,8 million acres of submerged coral reefs are home to more than 7,000 species of coral, algae, mollusks, fish, crustaceans, and other marine vertebrates and invertebrates.
Visitation to the refuge is by special use permit only.
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