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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “There is hereby reserved and set apart, as the Buck Island Reef National Monument, the area embraced within lines drawn…”

On the recordDecember 27, 1961
There is hereby reserved and set apart, as the Buck Island Reef National Monument, the area embraced within lines drawn between the coordinates of latitude and longitude recited as follows.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3443—Establishing the Buck Island Reef National Monument in the Virgin Islands of the United States

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