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  2. Key West Bight - Wikipedia

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    Sponge auction at the Key West Bight. In the mid to late 1800s, sea turtles were a prized commodity and sea turtle consumption was a substantial industry, with tens of thousands of green turtles harvested from Key West waters every year. [ 3 ]

  3. Turtle Island - Wikipedia

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    Turtle Island is a name for Earth [1] or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation myth common to several indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America. [2] A number of contemporary works continue to use and/or tell the Turtle ...

  4. Turtle Island (Newcastle Bay) - Wikipedia

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    Turtle Island Turtle Island (top right) with Turtle Head Island (centre) and Trochus Island (middle left). A map of the Torres Strait Islands showing Turtle Island in the south eastern waters of Torres Strait, east of the Cape York Peninsula Geography Location Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Northern Australia Coordinates 10°53′20″S 142°41′46″E  /  10.889°S 142.696°E ...

  5. Sea Turtle Restoration Project - Wikipedia

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    The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP), founded in 1989, is a project of Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization with a goal of protecting endangered sea turtles from human-caused threats at nesting beaches and in the ocean.

  6. Sea sponges keep climate records and the accounting is grim ...

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    The study’s authors collected sponges from waters at least 100 feet deep off Puerto Rico and near the island of St. Croix, analyzed their skeletons’ chemical composition, charted their ...

  7. Turtle Islands National Park - Wikipedia

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    Turtle Islands Park (Taman Pulau Penyu) is located within the Turtle Islands, which lie in the Sulu Sea [1] some 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) north of Sandakan in Sabah, Malaysia. [2] It consists of 3 islands - Selingaan , Little Bakkungan and Gulisaan (often spelt with -an instead of the traditional -aan), including the surrounding coral reefs and ...

  8. Turtle Islands, Sierra Leone - Wikipedia

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    Turtle Islands is a remote destination. The fishing communities have preserved their faith and traditions in a vivid manner. [4] Sherbros are very social and spend their evenings in groups, drinking and singing traditional songs focused on bravery and romance. One of the eight islands, Hoong, is off limits to visitors and women.

  9. Turtle Island (Lake Erie) - Wikipedia

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    Turtle Island is a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) island in the western portion of Lake Erie in the United States. The island is divided between the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio . Turtle Island is located about five miles (8.0 km) northeast of the mouth of the Maumee River in Maumee Bay .