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Fernandina Island (Spanish: Isla Fernandina) is the youngest and third largest island in the Galapagos, as well as the furthest west.It has an area of 642 km 2 (248 sq mi) and a height of 1,476 m (4,843 ft), with a summit caldera about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) wide.
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Aury surrendered the island to U.S. forces on December 23, 1817. [12] HMS Sappho was active in the port. George J. F. Clarke moved his family to the port area on Amelia Island to take advantage of economic opportunities. David Levy Yulee developed the Florida Railroad's eastern terminus at a port in Fernandina on Amelia Island.
Española, the oldest island, and Fernandina, the youngest, are also shield volcanoes, as are most of the other islands in the chain. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Galápagos Islands are perched on a large lava plateau known as the Galápagos Platform, which creates a shallow-water depth of 360 to 900 m (1,181 to 2,953 ft) at the base of the islands ...
1857 U.S. Coast Survey Map or Chart of St. Marys River and Fernandina Harbor, Florida.1857. In 1853 the town of Fernandina moved about a mile further south when David Levy Yulee chartered his Florida Railroad line, the first cross-state railroad in Florida. Fernandina was to be the eastern terminus, but Yulee declared the rails could not cross ...
In 1926 he found a map listing a settlement, "Fernandina," in the area of the Deer Creek Site, so he concluded it was the first non-Indian settlement in the area; however, the map was created in 1860. Ethnohistorian Mildren Mott Wedel asserted in 1981 that Fernandina or Ferdinandina had no connection to the 18th century Wichita village. [9]
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Plat of Fernandina from 1811 until 1821, showing location of Fort San Carlos, drawn by Franz Dollheimer in April 1937. On May 10, 1811, the acting Spanish governor at the time, Juan José Estrada, instructed the newly appointed public surveyor, George J. F. Clarke, [10] to plat the township [11] in accordance with the 1542 Spanish Laws of the Indies (Leyes de Indias).