U.S. Coral Reefs

Hawaiian Islands NWR Midway Atoll NWR Johnston Atoll NWR Kingman Reef NWR Palmyra Atoll NWR Howland Island NWR Baker Island NWR Rose Atoll NWR Jarvis Island NWR Guam NWR (Ritidian Point only) Key West NWR Great White Heron NWR	Navassa Island NWR War-in-the-Pacific NHP Kaloko-Honokohau NP Kalaupapa NHP American Samoa NP Biscayne NP Dry Tortugas NP Salt River Bay NHP Virgin Islands NP Buck Island Reef NM Virgin Islands Coral Reef NM Wake Atoll
NWR (National Wildlife Refuge), NHP (National Historic Park), NP (National Park), NM (National Monument)

There are extensive coral reefs in the waters of the United States and its territories, covering more than 4 million acres of the sea floor in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. More than 60% of the Nation’s coral reefs are found in the extended Hawaiian Island chain. Most of these are included in the recently designated Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Reserve, the largest U.S. nature preserve.

These include reefs off Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the Pacific Ocean, they include those of the Hawaiian Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, the Northern Marianas, Saipan, Guam, Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, and American Samoa.

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credit: NOAA, NASA, Reef Check, UNEP, Reef Relief, Australian Government