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Pine Island, Calhoun County, Florida. Coordinates: 30°28′26″N 85°02′35″W. Pine Island is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States. It is located on State Road 69 north of Blountstown . Pine Island was built upon wetlands of Simmons Creek, a tributary on the west bank of the Apalachicola River .
Pine Island Sound. Coordinates: 26°36′15″N 82°10′16″W. Pine Island Sound, January 2016. Pine Island Sound is located in Lee County, Florida, lying between Pine Island and the barrier islands of Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, North Captiva Island and Cayo Costa, which separate the Sound from the Gulf of Mexico.
The 78,000-acre forest consists primarily of cypress swamps, wet pine flatwoods and wet prairies. It also features a grid of closed roads over part of it, left over from previous land development schemes. Picayune Strand State Forest is located in southwest Florida in western Collier County, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the city of ...
An aerial view of the interchange of FL 84 at I-95. State Road 84 (SR 84) is a highway in the U.S. state of Florida originally extending from Tamiami Trail ( U.S. Route 41) in Naples to U.S. Route 1 in Fort Lauderdale. The road consists of two noncontiguous pieces––in Collier County as Davis Boulevard and in Broward County as Marina Mile ...
The history of Fort Lauderdale, Florida began more than 4,000 years ago with the arrival of the first aboriginal natives, and later with the Tequesta Indians, who inhabited the area for more than a thousand years. Though control of the area changed among Spain, England, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained ...
Pine Island Glacier. / 75.167°S 100.000°W / -75.167; -100.000. Pine Island Glacier ( PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss. [3] The glacier ice streams flow west-northwest along the south side of the Hudson Mountains into Pine Island Bay, Amundsen ...
The Pine Log State Forest is in the U.S. state of Florida. The 6,911-acre (28 km 2) forest is located in the panhandle, near Ebro. It was established in 1936 and is Florida's oldest state forest. Facilities and activities available include camping, swimming, fishing, boat ramp, picnicking, bicycling, horseback riding, hiking and nature trails
The Interstate's speed limit is 70 mph (110 km/h) for its entire length in Florida. The portion of I-75 from Tampa northward was a part of the original 1955 Interstate Highway plans, with I-75's southern terminus at I-4 's current western terminus. Planning to extend the Interstate south to Miami began in 1968 after massive growth in Southwest ...