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The 1733 Fleet was an entire Spanish convoy (except for one ship) lost in a hurricane off Florida. The lesser severity of the 1733 hurricane (which struck the fleet on July 15) and the shallowness of the wrecksites in the Keys, however, made for many survivors and even left four ships in good enough condition to be re-floated and sent back to Havana.
The climate and environment of the Florida Keys are closer to that of the Caribbean than the rest of Florida, though unlike the Caribbean's volcanic islands, the Keys were built by plants and animals. The Upper Keys islands are composed of sandy-type accumulations of limestone grains produced by plants and marine organisms. The Lower Keys are ...
Artificial island in the lower Florida Keys Singer Island: Palm Beach Barrier peninsula: Snead Island: 0.75 square miles (1.9 km 2) [10] Manatee Soldier Key: Miami-Dade In Biscayne National Park Spanish Harbor Key: Monroe In the lower Florida Keys St. Armands Key: 83.6 acres (33.8 ha) Sarasota In Sarasota Bay: St. George Island: 28 square miles ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
The islands are part of the Florida Keys, separated from the rest of the Florida Keys, which are farther east, by the Boca Grande Channel, which is 6 miles (9.7 km) wide until Boca Grande Key, the westernmost of the Mule Keys. Only the Dry Tortugas are farther west, 36 miles (58 km) west of the Marquesas Keys.
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. [15] The spacecraft will use gravity assists from Mars on March 1, 2025, [10] and Earth on December 3, 2026, [11] before arriving at Europa in April 2030. [16]
The following shipwrecks in Monroe County, Florida were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet Shipwrecks Multiple Property Submission (or MPS). [1] [2]
The northernmost of these islands, Ragged Key #1 has been inhabited in the past. The remains of an old wooden dock are in hazardous condition. The deteriorated concrete wall encircles majority of the island. The remains of previous development are concrete pillars and what used to be a cistern and looks like a broken concrete tank. [2]