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Input (English): Context: Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge is located about 2 miles ( 4 km ) south of the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands of the United States . There are actually two `` Buck Islands . '' The National Wildlife Refuge occupies the one near St. Thomas . The one just north of St. Croix is the centerpiece of Buck Island Reef National Monument . Adjacent to the refuge is Capella Island , about half the size of Buck , owned by the territorial government . The refuge is characterized by a thorn scrub habitat with rocky coastline surrounded by spectactular reefs . A lighthouse ( still maintained by the United States Coast Guard ) stands over 45 acres ( 180,000 m2 ) of cactus and grassland . The island was transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service due to `` its value for migratory birds . '' The U.S. Navy transferred some lands in 1969 and the remainder was received from the Coast Guard in 1981 . The surrounding waters contain reefs and a shipwreck that attract large numbers of snorkelers , divers , and boaters . Buck Island NWR is administered as part of the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife complex ., Capella Island is a 230-acre (0.93 km²) uninhabited island that is owned by the United States Virgin Islands. It is located about 2 miles (4 km) south of the island of St. Thomas. It is adjacent to Buck Island, home of Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge, about twice the size of Capella. Together Capella, Buck, and associated islets are sometimes referred to as the Capella Islands., National Wildlife Refuge System is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Refuge System is the system of public lands and waters set aside to conserve America's fish, wildlife and plants. Since President Theodore Roosevelt designated Florida's Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge as the first wildlife refuge in 1903, the System has grown to over 562 national wildlife refuges and 38 wetland management districts encompassing more than ., Buck Island Reef National Monument, or just Buck Island is a small, uninhabited, 176 acre (712,000 m²) island about north of the northeast coast of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was first established as a protected area by the U.S. Government in 1948, with the intention of preserving one of the finest marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea. The U.S. National Monument was created in 1961 by John F. Kennedy and greatly expanded in 2001 by Bill Clinton, over the bitter opposition of local fishermen. Buck Island National Monument is one of few places in the Virgin Islands where endangered brown pelicans and threatened lest terns nest., The United States Virgin Islands (U.S.V.I.; also called the American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles., The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness, while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation. , the 25,800 protected areas covered , or 14 percent of the land area of the United States. This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. The U.S. also had a total of 787 National Marine Protected Areas, covering an additional , or 12 percent of the total marine area of the United States., The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior which is dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission of the agency is "working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.", Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (; October 27, 1858  January 6, 1919) was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century., Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located just off the western coast of Orchid Island in the Indian River Lagoon east of Sebastian, Florida. The refuge consists of a island that includes an additional of surrounding water and is located off the east coast of Florida of the Indian River Lagoon. Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903, Pelican Island was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States. It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting., Subject: buck island national wildlife refuge, Relation: located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entity, Options: (A) acre (B) florida (C) leeward islands (D) mission (E) north (F) of (G) river (H) roosevelt (I) saint croix (J) south (K) theodore (L) time (M) united states virgin islands (N) virgin
Output (English): united states virgin islands