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Boot Key Harbor is a natural body of water located in the middle of the Florida Keys, entirely within the city limits of Marathon, Florida, United States. Boot Key Harbor can be accessed by boat via two inlets from the Atlantic Ocean. The western inlet has a controlling depth of 6 feet (1.8 m) at mean low-tide, as does the rest of the main ...
Just offshore of the Florida Keys along the edge of the Florida Straits is the Florida Reef (also known as the Florida Reef Tract), separated from the keys by the Hawk Channel. The Florida Reef extends 170 miles (270 km) from Fowey Rocks just east of Soldier Key to just south of the Marquesas Keys.
The Straits of Florida The Florida straits, the J-shaped channel between southeastern Florida and the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys and Cuba.. 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 ...
By 1820, the main route west became the newly completed Snickers Gap Turnpike which crossed the Blue Ridge to the south at Snickers Gap, and Keyes Gap lost its prominence. Despite this, Keyes Gap was still of strategic importance during the American Civil War, as it provided an alternate "back route" from Virginia to the key point of Harpers Ferry.
Tortugas Bank is the westernmost feature of the Florida Keys, but it is a submarine feature, wholly submerged, without any islands or above-water rocks. The least known depth is 11 meters. A depth of less than 18 meters is found in a circle of 4 km diameter around the center of the bank.
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Pennington Gap on U.S. Route 421 near Pennington Gap, Virginia; Low Gap near Mullins Ridge south of U.S. Route 58 in Virginia; Hunter Gap on Virginia Route 70; Mulberry Gap or Fitts Gap on Mulberry Gap Road; Jones Gap on Virginia-Tennessee border west of Phoebe Butt; Bow Gap east of Yellow Rock; Cranks Gap west of Yellow Rock
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