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Mar-a-Lago ( / ˌmɑːr ə ˈlɑːɡoʊ / MAR ə LAH-goh, Spanish: [ˈmaɾ a ˈlaɣo]; Spanish for 'Sea-to-Lake') is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida. It spans 126 rooms and 62,500 sq ft (5,810 m 2) [ 1] built on 17 acres of land. [ 2] Since 1985, it has been owned by former president Donald Trump, who now resides ...
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the ...
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was an extremely powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that struck the southeastern United States in early September 1935. For several decades it was: the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, until surpassed by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988; [1] the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of 1-minute sustained winds ...
5 mi (8 km) Width. 1.5 mi (2.4 km) Highest elevation. 5 ft (1.5 m) Administration. United States. Key Biscayne (Spanish: Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. It is the southernmost of the barrier islands along the Atlantic coast of Florida, and lies south of ...
2,189. Time zone. UTC-05 ( EST) ZIP Code. 33131. Area code (s) 305, 786. Brickell Key is a man-made island off the mainland Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Also called Claughton Island, the neighborhood is just east of Downtown Miami and the Miami River .
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. Adjoining in the south are smaller keys such as Gull Keys, Mooney Harbor Key, and finally about four unnamed keys in the southwest corner of the group.
The Cape Florida Light is a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County, Florida. [ 5] Constructed in 1825, it guided mariners off the Florida Reef, which starts near Key Biscayne and extends southward a few miles offshore of the Florida Keys. [ 6] It was operated by staff, with interruptions, until 1878 ...
Elliott Key is the northernmost of the true Florida Keys (those 'keys' which are ancient coral reefs lifted above the present sea level ), and the largest key north of Key Largo. [1] It is located entirely within Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, east of Homestead, Florida. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east ...