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Deep Lake (Florida)
Deep Lake is a natural sinkhole in Big Cypress National Preserve Big Cypress National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in South Florida, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Miami on the Atlantic coastal plain. The Big Cypress, along with Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas, beca ... in Florida. This 90-foot-deep naturally occurring sinkhole lake is the deepest lake south of Lake Okeechobee, and one of the deepest in the entire state. It is the namesake of the community built around it, Deep Lake, Florida. See also * List of sinkholes of the United States External linksDeep Lake Landforms of Collier County, Florida Sinkholes of Florida {{CollierCountyFL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Cypress National Preserve
Big Cypress National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in South Florida, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Miami on the Atlantic coastal plain. The Big Cypress, along with Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas, became the first national preserves in the United States National Park System when they were established on October 11, 1974. In 2008, Florida film producer Elam Stoltzfus featured the preserve in a PBS documentary. Big Cypress borders the wet freshwater marl prairies of Everglades National Park to the south, and other state and federally protected cypress country in the west, with water from the Big Cypress flowing south and west into the coastal Ten Thousand Islands region of Everglades National Park. History Archaeology at Platt Island in the preserve shows humans settled there more than two thousand years ago. The Calusa people had an extensive presence in the area when Europeans arrived. Big Cypress was historically occupied by va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collier County, Florida
Collier County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 375,752; an increase of 16.9% since the 2010 United States Census. Its county seat is East Naples, Florida, East Naples, where the county offices were moved from Everglades City, Florida, Everglades City in 1962. Collier County comprises the Naples, Florida, Naples–Marco Island, Florida, Marco Island Metropolitan statistical area, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which, along with the Cape Coral-Fort Myers (Lee County) MSA and the Clewiston, Florida, Clewiston (Hendry County, Florida, Hendry County, Glades County, Florida, Glades County) Micropolitan Statistical Area (Micropolitan statistical area, μSA), is included in the Cape Coral, Florida, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida, Fort Myers-Naples Combined statistical area, Combined Statistical Area (CSA). History Archaeology at Platt Island in the Big Cypress National Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Straits of Florida to the south, and The Bahamas to the southeast. About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. It has the List of U.S. states by coastline, longest coastline in the contiguous United States, spanning approximately , not including its many barrier islands. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of over 23 million, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, third-most populous state in the United States and ranks List of states and territories of the United States by population density, seventh in population density as of 2020. Florida spans , ranking List of U.S. states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Lake, Florida
Deep Lake is an uninhabited unincorporated area in Collier County, Florida, Collier County, Florida, United States. It is located between Immokalee, Florida, Immokalee and Everglades City, Florida, Everglades City along Florida State Road 29, State Route 29. The area is named after Deep Lake (Florida), Deep Lake, a deep naturally occurring sinkhole, which is the deepest lake south of Lake Okeechobee. History Around 1901, Walter Langford and John Roach acquired a tract of land in the Deep Lake area, known as "Deep Lake Hammock," with plans to develop the land into a grapefruit growing and packing enterprise. After years of laborious work, 200 acres of the hammock (ecology), hammock had been cleared and seeds were planted. Deep Lake Railroad To facilitate the process of transporting the grapefruit to market, the partners needed to build their own rail system. The Deep Lake Railroad was built in 1913 and spanned from Everglades City to Deep Lake. Barron Collier, friend of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sinkholes
The following is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, Sinkhole, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. Some are caused by Karst topography, karst processes—for example, the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks or suffosion processes. Sinkholes can vary in size from both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. Sinkholes may form gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide. Australia * Ewens Ponds – series of three water-filled limestone sinkholes on Eight Mile Creek south of Mount Gambier and east of Port MacDonnell, South Australia. * Fossil Cave – The cave is a karst sinkhole and is largely filled with water. *Kilsby sinkhole – in Mount Gambier, Southern Australia. * Koonalda Cave – a cave located in the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia. * Little Blue Lake – water-filled doline located near Mount Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Collier County, Florida
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
