World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument | |
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Location | Alaska, California & Hawaii, USA |
Area | 6,310 acres (25.5 km2) |
Created | December 5, 2008 |
Visitors | 1,574,156 (in 2015)[1] |
Governing body | National Park Service & Fish and Wildlife Service |
Website | World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument |
The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument was a U.S. national monument honoring events, people, and sites of the Pacific Theater engagement of the United States during World War II. The John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed into law March 12, 2019, abolished the national monument, replacing it with Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument, and Tule Lake National Monument.[2]
Sites
The national monument included 9 sites in 3 states, totaling 6,310 acres (2,550 ha):
- Hawaii – sites administered by the National Park Service
- USS Arizona Memorial and Visitor Center
- USS Utah Memorial
- USS Oklahoma Memorial
- Six Chief Petty Officer Bungalows on Ford Island
- Mooring Quays F6, F7, and F8, which formed part of Battleship Row
- Alaska – sites administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service as part of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
- Battle of Attu battlefield remnants on Attu Island, Aleutian Islands
- Japanese occupation of Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands
- Atka B-24D Liberator crash site on Atka Island, Aleutian Islands
- California – site jointly administered by both NPS and FWS
- Tule Lake National Monument (on the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans), in Modoc County, northeastern California. (41°53′22″N 121°22′29″W / 41.88944°N 121.37472°W / 41.88944; -121.37472 (Tule Lake Unit))
- Hawaii – sites administered by the National Park Service
Administration
The monument was administered by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The actual shipwrecks of the Arizona, Utah, and Oklahoma were not parts of the monument and remained under the jurisdiction of the US Navy.
Establishment
The monument was created on December 5, 2008, through a proclamation issued by President George W. Bush under the authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906. The proclamation date was selected in anticipation of the 67th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 2008. This was the first proclamation of a national monument in Alaska since passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980.[3]
See also
References
- Proclamation 8327 of December 5, 2008, Establishment of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, 73 FR 75293 (2008-12-10).
Notes
- ^ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-12-07.
- ^ "Text - S.47 - John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act". United States Congress. 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
- ^ ANILCA requires Congressional ratification of the use of the Antiquities Act for withdrawals of greater than 5,000 acres (20.2 km²) in Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980". Retrieved December 8, 2008.
External links
- National Park Service: Pearl Harbor National Memorial
- National Park Service: Tule Lake National Monument
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service − Foundation Statement–Alaska Unit, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
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- African Burial Ground
- Agate Fossil Beds
- Alibates Flint Quarries
- Aniakchak
- Aztec Ruins
- Bandelier
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality
- Birmingham Civil Rights
- Booker T. Washington
- Buck Island Reef
- Cabrillo
- Camp Nelson
- Canyon de Chelly
- Cape Krusenstern
- Capulin Volcano
- Casa Grande Ruins
- Castillo de San Marcos
- Castle Clinton
- Castle Mountains
- Cedar Breaks
- César E. Chávez
- Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers
- Chiricahua
- Colorado
- Craters of the Moon
- Devils Postpile
- Devils Tower
- Dinosaur
- Effigy Mounds
- El Malpais
- El Morro
- Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley
- Florissant Fossil Beds
- Fort Frederica
- Fort Matanzas
- Fort McHenry
- Fort Monroe
- Fort Pulaski
- Fort Stanwix
- Fort Union
- Fossil Butte
- Freedom Riders
- George Washington Birthplace
- George Washington Carver
- Gila Cliff Dwellings
- Governors Island
- Grand Canyon–Parashant
- Grand Portage
- Hagerman Fossil Beds
- Hohokam Pima
- Hovenweep
- Jewel Cave
- John Day Fossil Beds
- Katahdin Woods and Waters
- Lava Beds
- Little Bighorn Battlefield
- Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
- Mill Springs Battlefield
- Montezuma Castle
- Muir Woods
- Natural Bridges
- Navajo
- Oregon Caves
- Organ Pipe Cactus
- Petroglyph
- Pipe Spring
- Pipestone
- Poverty Point
- Rainbow Bridge
- Russell Cave
- Salinas Pueblo Missions
- Scotts Bluff
- Statue of Liberty
- Stonewall
- Sunset Crater Volcano
- Timpanogos Cave
- Tonto
- Tule Lake
- Tule Springs Fossil Beds
- Tuzigoot
- Virgin Islands Coral Reef
- Waco Mammoth
- Walnut Canyon
- Wupatki
- Yucca House
- Admiralty Island
- Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
- Bears Ears
- Berryessa Snow Mountain
- Browns Canyon
- Camp Hale – Continental Divide
- Chimney Rock
- Giant Sequoia
- Gila Cliff Dwellings
- Misty Fjords
- Mount St. Helens
- Newberry
- Saint Francis Dam Disaster
- San Gabriel Mountains
- Sand to Snow
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains
Land Management
- Agua Fria
- Avi Kwa Ame
- Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
- Basin and Range
- Bears Ears
- Berryessa Snow Mountain
- Browns Canyon
- California Coastal
- Canyons of the Ancients
- Carrizo Plain
- Cascade–Siskiyou
- Craters of the Moon
- Fort Ord
- Gold Butte
- Grand Canyon–Parashant
- Grand Staircase–Escalante
- Ironwood Forest
- Jurassic
- Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks
- Mojave Trails
- Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks
- Pompeys Pillar
- Prehistoric Trackways
- Río Grande del Norte
- San Juan Islands
- Sand to Snow
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains
- Sonoran Desert
- Upper Missouri River Breaks
- Vermilion Cliffs
AFRH, NOAA, USAF, Army)
- Aleutian Islands World War II
- Castner Range
- Hanford Reach
- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
- Marianas Trench Marine
- Military Working Dog Teams
- Northeast Canyons and Seamounts
- Pacific Remote Islands Marine
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine
- President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
- Rose Atoll Marine
- Tule Lake