The world’s largest marine park will soon be created in the
Cook Islands located in the Pacific Ocean over 1,800 miles from New Zealand.
Covering an area of more than 400,000 square miles, the park will be three
times the size of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and twice as large
as the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean that topped the list of marine
protected areas for two years. The nation’s 15 islands have a combined land
mass barely larger than Washington DC, but its waters include environmentally
valuable coral reefs, seagrass beds and fisheries.
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