On Sept. 15, US president Barack Obama declared the creation of a new national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and lies about 150 miles southeast of the coast of Cape Cod, and contains over 4,900 square miles of ocean.
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