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'Most remote island' creates massive marine protection zone

by Danica Kirka
| November 14, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is creating a marine protection zone to safeguard endangered rockhopper penguins, yellow-nosed albatross and other wildlife in an area of the South Atlantic three times the size of the United Kingdom.

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