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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 ...
79000684 [1] Added to NRHP. August 13, 1979. The Overseas Railroad (also known as Florida Overseas Railroad, the Overseas Extension, and Flagler's Folly) was an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 miles (206 km) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula. Work on the line started in 1905 [2] and it operated ...
Florida Keys: 4 October N/A A large ship is wrecked in the Florida Keys due to a passing hurricane 1695 Martinique: October 600 N/A 1696 Western Cuba: N/A N/A Heavy flooding, 1 ship lost 1696 South Florida East Coast October 3–4 [O.S. September 23–24] N/A A hurricane of unknown strength impacted South Florida.
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965. The storm's erratic nature, coupled with its intensity and minimized preparation time contributed to making Betsy the first tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin ...
David Goodhue, Jacqueline Charles. Updated January 23, 2023 at 8:12 PM. The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a migrant boat carrying nearly 400 people from Haiti near an isolated island in the Bahamas ...
The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba and the other Antillean Islands, and east and south-east of Florida .
The 1919 Florida Keys hurricane (also known as the 1919 Key West hurricane) [1] was a massive and damaging tropical cyclone that swept across areas of the northern Caribbean Sea and the United States Gulf Coast in September 1919. Remaining an intense Atlantic hurricane throughout much of its existence, the storm's slow movement and sheer size ...
System east of Florida could bring rough surf and downpours from the northern Bahamas to the Southeast Atlantic Coast. Some areas from Melbourne to Charleston, South Carolina, may be at risk for ...