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USCG Anclote Keys Lighthouse

The Anclote Key Lighthouse, built in 1887, stands at the southern tip of Anclote Key at the mouth of the Anclote River. A reproduction 4th order Fresnel lens was installed by the Park Service and the Coast Guard in 2003. The light emits four flashes every 30 seconds with an estimated visibility of five miles.

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Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Olsen and Petty Officer 3rd Class Joray Deliz, crew members from Coast Guard Station Sand Key, Florida, dewater a 30-foot boat 3 miles west of Clearwater Pass, Florida, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2016. Three people aboard the 30-foot boat called the Coast Guard for emergency assistance after it began flooding. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

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Coast Guard crew members from Station Sand Key, Florida, dewater a 30-foot boat while a Pinellas County Fire and Rescue boat crew escorts the flooded boat 3 miles west of Clearwater Pass, Florida, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2016. Three people aboard the 30-foot boat called the Coast Guard for emergency assistance after it began flooding. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

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FortDesotoMortars

12-inch M1890-M1 mortars at Fort Desoto, Mullet Key, Florida November 7, 2002

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Honeymoon Island State Park (Image 1)

This photograph was taken at Honeymoon Island State Park, which is located in northwestern Pinellas County near Clearwater, FL.

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LynchFountainEckerdCollegeMay2014

A photograph of the fountain in honor of Stephen Andrew Lynch and Flora Posey Lynch, on the campus of Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida, taken Saturday, 17th May 2014.

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Pelican Brown122

Brown Pelican. Near St Pete's Beach, Florida USA.

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Tropicana field

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Florida -Hamilton County - Sarasota County (part)- - NARA - 17474775 (page 1303)

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Florida - Dunedin - NARA - 23936601

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Florida - Dunedin - NARA - 23936601 (cropped)

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$ 10 reward for runaway slave "SMART" by Geo Willis Navy Agent Pensacola Gazette 22 Aug 1840 p 3

This $ 10 reward for runaway slave know as "SMART" was placed by Navy Agent George Willis in the Pensacola Gazette in July 1840. Willis worked at the Pensacola Navy Yard in the 1840's and leased his bondsmen to the Navy.

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2004 FL Proof

Florida state quarter

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Battle of Olustee (cropped)

en:Historically inaccurate lithograph depicting the advance of the 8th United States Colored Troops at the Battle of Olustee, 20 February 1864. Series : General collection Image Number : N046635 Date : 18--. Subject Heading(s) : Painting. Olustee (Fla.), Battle of, 1864. Olustee (Fla.) Original : 1 slide col.

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Map of the Spanish province of "La Florida," which included most of the southeastern United States. The map was drawn by Spanish royal cartographer Geronimo Chiaves, and was probably based on accounts by members of the Hernando De Soto expedition (1539-1543). The map was originally published in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1584.

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Church of the Little Flower

The Church of the Little Flower, June 2010.

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Florida counties

A map of Florida's counties

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Florida population density 2020

Population density of Florida by census tract as of the 2020 U.S. census. Map generation process described here.

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Florida population pyramid

Florida population pyramid

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Turbid waters surround southern Florida and the Florida Keys in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image taken by the Aqua satellite on December 2, 2003. Clouds of milky blue, green, and tan sediments and microscopic marine organisms (like phytoplankton and algae) discolor the water in the Gulf of Mexico north of the Keys, but end abruptly in the deeper water of the Straits of Florida. The water north of the Keys is relatively shallow, so sediments are a likely

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Gator and Python

An American alligator and a Burmese python locked in a struggle to prevail in Everglades National Park.

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Manatee with calf.PD - colour corrected

A manatee and her calf. West Indian Manatee, an endangered aquatic mammal of Puerto Rico.

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Seminole War in Everglades

Marines battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War--1835-1842.

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Sabal palmettos in Florida

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