Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge. Wake Island is managed by the Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center, in partnership with the U.S. Also, National Wildlife Refuges exist at each of the islands within the Monument accept Wake Island. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge staff currently operate a field camp at Johnston to monitor and eradicate the accidentally introduced Yellow Crazy Ant that kills the migratory and resident seabirds there. Both of these islands are under administrative oversight by the Department of Defense, whereas U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), with the exception of Johnston Atoll and Wake Island. The Monument islands are cooperatively managed by the Secretary of Commerce (NOAA) and the Secretary of the Interior (U.S. And, in September 2014, President Obama expanded the Monument through Proclamation 9173 to protect its abundant marine life, biologically diverse seamount habitats, and various resources of scientific or historic interest. Bush established the Monument in January 2009 with Presidential Proclamation 8335. Under the authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906, President George W. The monument consists of approximately 1,269,065 square kilometers (370,000 square nautical miles) of ocean surrounding seven islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean: Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands Wake, Johnston, and Palmyra Atolls and Kingman Reef.
The Monument is among the largest marine protected areas in the world and represents the most widespread collection of marine life that is under a single country's jurisdiction on the planet. Wake Island and the surrounding waters are part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which lies to the south and west of Hawaiʻi.
Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument The work in the area is now continuing with two additional cruises: the first with remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives, mapping, and telepresence July 27–August 19 and the second with only mapping and telepresence August 25–September 11. The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research conducted mapping operations in and around Wake Island within the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument during an expedition in March–April 2016. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake. Map showing the location of Wake Island and the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
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