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  2. Key West - Wikipedia

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    www.cityofkeywest-fl.gov. Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it constitutes the City of Key West. The island of Key West is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) long and 1 ...

  3. Straits of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Spanish: 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. It is 93 mi (150 km) wide at the narrowest point between Key West ...

  4. History of Knoxville, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Knoxville became the first capital of the State of Tennessee in 1796, and grew steadily during the early 19th century as a way station for westward-bound migrants and as a commercial center for nearby mountain communities. [1] The arrival of the railroad in the 1850s led to a boom in the city's population and commercial activity.

  5. Florida Keys - Wikipedia

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    The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the ...

  6. Piracy in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    In the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas the non-European world had been divided between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north–south line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. This gave Spain control of the Americas, a position the Spaniards later reiterated with an equally unenforceable papal bull (The Inter caetera ).

  7. Maritime history of the United States (1800–1899) - Wikipedia

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    The 1840s. The first regular steamship service from the west to the east coast of the United States began on February 28, 1849, with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San Francisco, California after a 4-month 21 ...

  8. Cay - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 750 m × 1,500 m (2,460 ft × 4,920 ft), this island is situated on the leeward surface of a large 11 km 2 (4.2 sq mi) emergent reef platform. This cay and the surrounding reef flat formed in the Holocene, over a prior Pleistocene platform. [19] Elbow Cays, Bahamas; Great Goat Island, Jamaica; Ocean Cay; The Cays of Morrocoy ...

  9. Aquarius Reef Base - Wikipedia

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    Aquarius Reef Base. The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat located 5.4 mi (8.7 km) off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, United States. It is the world's only undersea research laboratory and it is operated by Florida International University. It is deployed on the ocean floor 62 ft (19 m) below the ...

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