Ben Waggoner :
A distich of folk have list Northeast Greenland National Park , at 927,000 square kilometers ( 375,000 square miles ) . But the U.S. has a tumid reserve . It ’s not officially telephone a National Park , but it is a National Monument . ( The difference is that National Parks can only be produce by an turn of Congress , but a President can adjudge any federally own territory in the U.S. as a National Monument . Many National Monuments have last on to be declare National Parks , and most are manage by the National Park System , although this one is manage by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration , or the NOAA . ) So you may decide whether you desire to let this " count " as the largest internal park ; even though its prescribed designation is National Monument , it ’s a national park for all intents and purposes .
May I introduce you to the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument—1,510,000 straight kilometers , or 583,000 square miles , and almost all of it water , although it includes 10 islands .
I do n’t say this often , but I treasure George W. Bush , for having created this memorial in June 2006 ( as the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument ) . Almost all of it was already part of the State of Hawaii , although no one was survive on any of the island . It includes some earlier refuges and monuments , such as the Battle of Midway National Memorial . It was expanded in 2016 to the edges of the 200 - mile Exclusive Economic Zone .
The monument protects 7000 species of maritime animals , as well as birds and industrial plant , let in many endangered ones , and many fish and shellfish populations that have not yet recovered from overfishing in the 1980s and 1990s . ( you may learn more at the prescribed Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monumentwebsite . )
It does n’t look like much on the surface :
But the view from below is middling good :
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