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National Marine Sanctuary
Marine National Monument
National Park (marine)
Wildlife Refuge (marine)
State / Other
About this map
This map displays the United States Marine Protected Area system β every site recognized by NOAA's MPA Inventory, including the 15 National Marine Sanctuaries, Marine National Monuments such as PapahΔnaumokuΔkea and Pacific Remote Islands, and hundreds of state-managed reserves, refuges, and conservation areas.
Data
Boundaries are sourced from the NOAA Marine Protected Areas
Inventory and rendered via vector tiles on Cloudflare R2. Tiles
and basemap are served from tiles.latlng.work.
Categories
- National Marine Sanctuary β federally protected, multi-use ocean areas managed by NOAA.
- Marine National Monument β large, strongly protected areas designated under the Antiquities Act.
- No-take reserve β extraction of any kind is prohibited; the strictest protection level.
- Multi-use MPA β sustainable use is permitted under regulation (most US sites fall here).