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Florida Keys

Index Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States. [1]

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Acer rubrum

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp, water or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.

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Adams Key

Adams Key is an island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Aid

In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

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American crocodile

The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bahia Honda Key

Bahia Honda (meaning deep bay, in Spanish, locally pronounced: BAY-ah HON-da, also pronounced: Bah-EE-ah OWN-dah) is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are coastal landforms and a type of dune system that are exceptionally flat or lumpy areas of sand that form by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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Big Coppitt Key

Big Coppitt Key is an island in Monroe County, Florida, United States, in the lower Florida Keys.

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Big Pine Key, Florida

Big Pine Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the Florida Keys.

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Big Torch Key

Big Torch Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park is an American national park located in southern Florida, south of Miami.

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Boca Chica Key

Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys, about a mile east of the island of Key West at its closest point.

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Boca Chita Key

Boca Chita Key is the island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Boot Key

Boot Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys located adjacent to Key Vaca.

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Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees with flower-like spring leaves near its flowers.

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Bryozoa

Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.

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Bursera simaruba

Bursera simaruba, commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, chaca, and turpentine tree, is a tree species in the family Burseraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas from South Florida to Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil, Jinotega and Venezuela.

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Calcareous

Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.

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Calusa

The Calusa were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Cay

A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

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Conch Key, Florida

Conch Key is an island and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located in the middle Florida Keys.

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Conch Republic

The Conch Republic is a micronation declared as a tongue-in-cheek secession of the city of Key West, Florida, from the United States on April 23, 1982.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Coral island

A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Craig Key

Craig Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Crawl Key

Crawl Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge

The Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in north Key Largo, less than 40 miles (60 km) south of Miami off SR 905 (Card Sound Road).

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

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Cudjoe Key, Florida

Cudjoe Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the lower Florida Keys.

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Dennis Wardlow

Dennis Wardlow (born c. 1954) is a former Mayor of Key West, Florida, having served on three separate occasions.

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Dry Tortugas

The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Florida Keys, United States, about west of Key West, and west of the Marquesas Keys, the closest islands.

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Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park in the United States about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Duck Key

Duck Key is an island in Monroe County, Florida, United States, in the middle Florida Keys.

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East Rockland Key

East Rockland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about 4 miles east of Key West.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

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Elliott Key

Elliott Key is the northernmost of the true Florida Keys (those 'keys' which are ancient coral reefs lifted above the present sea level), and the largest key north of Key Largo.

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Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae.

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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades in Florida.

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Fat Deer Key

Fat Deer Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Fiesta Key

Fiesta Key is an island in the Florida Keys, connected via causeway to U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) at mile marker 70, between Long Key and Craig Key.

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Fleming Key

Fleming Key is an island off the northwest corner of the island of Key West, Florida in the lower Florida Keys.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Bay

Florida Bay is the bay located between the southern end of the Florida mainland (the Florida Everglades) and the Florida Keys in the United States.

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Florida City, Florida

Florida City is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States and is the southernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area.

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Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida.

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Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Florida Keys Marathon Airport

The Florida Keys Marathon International Airport is a public airport located along the Overseas Highway (US1) in Marathon, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in the Florida Keys.

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Florida Reef

The Florida Reef (also known as the Great Florida Reef, Florida reefs, Florida Reef Tract and Florida Keys Reef Tract) is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States.

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Fort Kent, Maine

Fort Kent is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.

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Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers or Ft.

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Fowey Rocks Light

Fowey Rocks Light is located seven miles southeast of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne.

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Geiger Key

Geiger Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about east of Key West.

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Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

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Grassy Key

Grassy Key, Florida, is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Henry Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, first based in Ohio.

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Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.

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Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck the Bahamas and Florida in mid-August 1992, the most destructive hurricane to ever hit the state until Hurricane Irma surpassed it 25 years later.

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Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Camille was the second-most intense tropical cyclone to strike the United States on record.

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Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde Category 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making eight landfalls along its path.

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Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic in terms of maximum sustained winds since Wilma, and the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.

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Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Indian Key Historic State Park

Indian Key Historic State Park is an island within the Florida State Park system, located just a few hundred yards southeast of U.S. 1 within the Florida Keys.

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Islamorada, Florida

Islamorada is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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John Abbott College

John Abbott College is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal.

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Juan Ponce de León

Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne (Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.

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Key Colony Beach, Florida

Key Colony Beach is a municipality in the middle of the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Key deer

The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered deer that lives only in the Florida Keys.

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Key Haven, Florida

Key Haven is an unincorporated community on Raccoon Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately one mile east of the island of Key West.

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Key Largo

Key Largo (Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the Keys, at long.

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Key Largo woodrat

The Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli), a subspecies of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), is a medium-sized rat found in the northern area of Key Largo, Florida, in the United States.

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Key Largo, Florida

Key Largo is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys.

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Key lime

The Key lime (Citrus × aurantiifolia) is a citrus hybrid (C. micrantha x C. medica) with a spherical fruit, in diameter, that is yellow when ripe but usually picked green commercially.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Key West International Airport

Key West International Airport is an international airport located in the City of Key West in Monroe County, Florida and two miles east of the main commercial center of Key West.

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Knights Key

Knights Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys, located entirely within the borders of the city of Marathon, Florida.

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Knockemdown Key

Knockemdown Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately east of Key West.

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Landfall

Landfall is the event of a storm moving over egregious land after being over water.

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Lignumvitae Key

Lignumvitae Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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List of Caribbean islands

Antigua.

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List of longest bridges

This is a list of the world's longest bridges more than three kilometres long sorted by their full length above land or water.

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Little Duck Key

Little Duck Key is a small island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Little Torch Key

Little Torch Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Long Key

Long Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Long Key Bridge

The Long Key Bridge, officially known as the Dante B. Fascell Bridge, is a bridge in the Florida Keys connecting Long Key and Conch Key, roughly halfway between Miami and Key West.

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Long Point Key

Long Point Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys.

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Lower Matecumbe Key

Lower Matecumbe Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys, United States, located on U.S. 1 between mile markers 75–78.

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Lower Sugarloaf Key

Lower Sugarloaf Key is the lower arm of an island known as Sugarloaf Key in the lower Florida Keys about 13 miles east of Key West.

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Mainland

Mainland is a contiguous landmass that is larger and often politically, economically and/or demographically more significant than politically associated remote territories, such as exclaves or oceanic islands situated outside the continental shelf.

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Marathon, Florida

Marathon is a city on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key islands in the middle of the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Marine geology

Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor.

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Marl

Marl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt.

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Marquesas Keys

The Marquesas Keys form an uninhabited island group about west of Key West, 4 miles (6 km) in diameter, and largely covered by mangrove forest.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Middle Torch Key

Middle Torch Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Milestone

A milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Missouri Key

Missouri Key is a small island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Monroe County, Florida

Monroe County is a county in the state of Florida.

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National Key Deer Refuge

The National Key Deer Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on Big Pine Key and No Name Key in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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No Name Key

No Name Key is an island located in the lower Florida Keys in the United States.

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North Key Largo, Florida

North Key Largo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Ohio Key

US 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the Ohio Key at approximately mile marker 39, between Missouri Key and Bahia Honda Key.

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Old Rhodes Key

Old Rhodes Key is an island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Oolite

Oolite or oölite (egg stone) is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers.

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Overseas Highway

The Overseas Highway is a highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys.

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Overseas Railroad

The Overseas Railroad (also known as Florida Overseas Railroad, the Overseas Extension, and Flagler's Folly) was an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 miles (204.8 km) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula.

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Papaya

The papaya (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, or pawpaw is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae.

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Park Key

Park Key is an uninhabited island in the lower Florida Keys about 14 miles east of Key West.

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Peninsula

A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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Per capita

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: per (preposition, taking the accusative case, meaning "by means of") and capita (accusative plural of the noun caput, "head").

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Pigeon Key

Pigeon Key is a small island containing the historic district of Pigeon Key, Florida.

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Pinus elliottii

Pinus elliottii, commonly known as the slash pine, is a pine tree native to the southeastern United States.

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Piscidia piscipula

Piscidia piscipula, formerly also called Piscidia erythrina and commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood, or fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree endemic to the wider Caribbean region including extreme southern Florida (primarily the Florida Keys) and the Bahamas, many of the Antillean islands and the coastal region from Panama northward to the vicinity of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Plant litter

Litterfall, plant litter, leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, or duff, is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.

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Plantation Key

Plantation Key is an island in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.

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Ragged Keys

Ragged Keys are small islands north of the upper Florida Keys.

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Ramrod Key

Ramrod Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Reid Key

Reid Key is a small island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Rick Scott

Richard Lynn Scott (born December 1, 1952) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 45th and current Governor of Florida since 2011.

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Rockland Key

Rockland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about 4 miles east of Key West.

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Rubicon Keys

The Rubicon Keys are two small islands north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Saddlebunch Keys

The Saddlebunch Keys are a series of mangrove islands about 7 miles east of Key West, Florida.

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), formerly the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale (SSHS), classifies hurricanesWestern Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical stormsinto five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Sands Key

Sands Key is an island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Sangamonian

The Sangamonian Stage (or Sangamon interglacial) is the term used in North America to designate the last interglacial.

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Scout Key

Scout Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Seven Mile Bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is a bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Shark Key

Shark Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about 7 miles east of Key West.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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Sigsbee Park

Sigsbee Park, also known as Dredgers Key, is an island about a half mile north of Key West island in the lower Florida Keys; administratively it is within the City of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Soldier Key

Soldier Key is an island in Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Stillwater, Minnesota

Stillwater is a city in Washington County, Minnesota across the St. Croix River from the state of Wisconsin.

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Stock Island

Stock Island is an island in the lower Florida Keys immediately east of Key West (separated from Key West by Cow Key Channel, which is only about 75 yards (70 m) wide).

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Straits of Florida

The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.

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Sugarloaf Key

Sugarloaf Key is a single island in the lower Florida Keys that forms a loop on the Atlantic Ocean side giving the illusion of separate islands.

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Summerland Key

Summerland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 20 miles east of Key West; it contains an unincorporated community of Monroe County of the same name.

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Sunset Key

Sunset Key is a residential neighborhood and resort island in the city of Key West, Florida, United States.

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Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as the American Mahogany, Cuban Mahogany, Small-leaved Mahogany, and West Indian Mahogany,IUCN Red List: is a species of Swietenia native to southern Florida in the United States and islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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Tavernier, Florida

Tavernier is a census-designated place (CDP) and Unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States on Key Largo, the largest island in the upper Florida Keys.

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Tea Table Key

Teatable Key also known as "Terra's Key" is an island in the upper Florida Keys.

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Tequesta

The Tequesta (also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos) Native American tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Thrinax radiata

Thrinax radiata, the Florida thatch palm, is a medium to slow growing palm in the family Arecaceae.

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Totten Key

Totten Key is an island of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park.

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Traffic collision

A traffic collision, also called a motor vehicle collision (MVC) among other terms, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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U.S. Route 1 in Florida

U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) in Florida runs along the state's east coast from Key West to its crossing of the St. Marys River into Georgia north of Boulogne, and south of Folkston.

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United States Border Patrol

The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is an American federal law enforcement agency.

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Upper Matecumbe Key

Upper Matecumbe Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys.

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Vaca Key

Vaca Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys, located entirely within the borders of the city of Marathon, Florida.

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Windley Key

Windley Key is an island in the upper Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex.

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Wisteria Island

Wisteria Island, also known as Christmas Tree Island, is a federally owned, uninhabited island in the lower Florida Keys 645 yards (590 m) northwest of the northwestern corner of the main island and city of Key West, Florida, Monroe County, United States.

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1906 Florida Keys hurricane

The 1906 Florida Keys hurricane was a powerful and deadly hurricane that caused major impacts in Cuba and southern Florida.

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1910 Cuba hurricane

The 1910 Cuba hurricane, popularly known as the Cyclone of the Five Days, was an unusual and destructive tropical cyclone that struck Cuba and the United States in October 1910.

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1935 Labor Day hurricane

The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States on record and the most intense Atlantic hurricane until Hurricane Gilbert.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Keys

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