Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Amelia Island was the main filming location for the 2002 John Sayles-directed film Sunshine State. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking was also filmed there in 1988. [55] Amelia Island hosted a Women's Tennis Association tournament for 28 years (1980 to 2008).
Most of the state's highest named points are in Holmes, Walton, and Washington counties, in the sub-Piedmont highlands of northern Florida. The highest points in peninsular Florida are found along the Lake Wales Ridge , running through the central portion of the peninsula, and the Brooksville Ridge , which parallels the northwestern coast of ...
Allison Island: Miami-Dade: Amelia Island: 18 square miles (47 km 2) [2] Nassau: One of the Sea Islands: Anastasia Island: 14 square miles (36 km 2) [3] St. Johns: Barrier island Anna Maria Island: 7 square miles (18 km 2) Manatee: Barrier island Archer Key: 24.7 ha; 61.1 acres Monroe: One of the Mule Keys in the lower Florida Keys: Arsenicker ...
Amelia Island, Florida Amelia Island, the southernmost of the Sea Islands, has a history of Spanish, French, British, and American rule—and a touch of each in its surroundings. VISIT
Fernandina Beach is a city in northeastern Florida and the county seat of Nassau County, Florida, United States.It is the northernmost city on Florida's Atlantic coast, situated on Amelia Island, and is one of the municipalities comprising Greater Jacksonville (formally the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Amelia Island State Recreation Area is a state park in Florida, United States. Its location is 7 miles (11 km) north of Little Talbot Island State Park on SR A1A , and 8 miles (13 km) south of Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island along the Atlantic coastal plain .
At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
Yulee is located within a 15-mile radius of Amelia Island, Jacksonville International Airport, Florida State College at Jacksonville's Nassau Center, White Oak Conservation, Florida Fish and Nassau Wildlife Management Area, Four Creeks State Forest, Yulee Branch Library, Nassau County Sheriff's Office Headquarters, and the Florida Welcome ...