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Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about 68 miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys .
Yankee Freedom III returning to Key West from Dry Tortugas National Park. The Dry Tortugas Ferry to Fort Jefferson is a visitor attraction in Key West, Florida.Service is provided by the Yankee Freedom III, a high-speed Incat-designed catamaran that takes visitors on the almost 70-mile (110 km) trip out to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas National Park.
Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, [2] [3] covering 16 acres (6.5 ha) and made with over 16 million bricks. [4]
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Only the Dry Tortugas are farther west, 36 miles (58 km) west of the Marquesas Keys. The central lagoon is called Mooney Harbor. The northernmost key is the largest and has a strip of sandy beach free of mangrove. In the past it was known as "Entrance Key". It surrounds the lagoon in the north and east.
Ferry services offer transportation to the islands from the mainland. [29] (BR) [30] Congaree † South Carolina: November 10, 2003: 26,692.60 acres (108.0 km 2) 204,522 On the Congaree River, this park is the largest portion of old-growth floodplain forest left in North America. Some of the trees are the tallest in the eastern United States.
U.S. researchers have concluded that the 17th-century remains of sunken British warship HMS Tyger rest below the surface in Dry Tortugas National Park.
Transportation in Florida includes a variety of options, including Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and Florida State Roads; Amtrak and commuter rail services; airports, public transportation, and sea ports, in a number of the state's counties and regions.