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Loggerhead Key is an uninhabited tropical island within the Dry Tortugas group of islands in the Gulf of Mexico. [3] At approximately 49 acres (19.8 hectares) in size, it is the largest island of the Dry Tortugas.
An aerial view of Loggerhead Key Loggerhead Key, 250 by 1,200 m (820 by 3,940 ft) in size, with an area of 26 hectares (64 acres) is the largest.This island has the highest elevation in the Dry Tortugas, at 10 ft (3.0 m).
The Dry Tortugas Light is a lighthouse located on Loggerhead Key, three miles west of Fort Jefferson, Florida. [1] [2] It was taken out of operation in 2015. It has also been called the Loggerhead Lighthouse. It has been said to be "a greater distance from the mainland than any other light in the world." [3]
Loggerhead Key, the largest islet in the Dry Tortugas, Florida; Loggerheads and Whitmore ward, a ward in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, England; Loggerhead Park, a 17-acre recreational area in Juno Beach, Florida with a beach
Tortugas Bank is about 14 km west of Loggerhead Key, the westernmost islet of the Dry Tortugas and the closest piece of land. 8 Fathom Bank, about 6.5 km northeast of the center of Tortugas Bank Little Bank, about 11 km northeast of the center of Tortugas Bank
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G. ruricola is found across much of the Caribbean, from Cuba and the Bahamas in the west through the Antilles to Barbados in the east. It has been reported from Florida and Nicaragua, but few confirmed examples exist from the mainland; Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas marks the northernmost limit of its island distribution, which extends across the Bahamas and Cuba, through the Greater and ...