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Definition: Everglades from Philip's Encyclopedia

Large marshland in S Florida, USA, extending from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay; it includes the Everglades National Park. The region comprises mangrove forests, saw grass and hummocks (island masses of vegetation), and supports tropical animal life, including alligators, snakes, turtles, egrets and bald eagles. Area: c.10,000sq km (4000sq mi).


Everglades

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
marshy, low-lying subtropical savanna area, c.4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km), S Fla., extending from Lake Okeechobee S to Florida Bay. Characterized by water, sawgrass, hammocks (islandlike masses of vegetation), palms, pine and mangrove forests, and solidly packed black muck (resulting from millions of years of vegetation decay in near-stagnant water), the Everglades receives an annual average rainfall of more than 60 in. (152 cm), mainly in the summer. Big Cypress Swamp, to the northwest, and Lake Okeechobee are the chief sources of its water. Low limestone rises rim the area, acting as a natural retaining wall. The wildlife-rich area is home to such endangered species as the Florida panther, American crocodile, and manatee, and also home to a sizable, non-native Burmese python population. Colonial expeditions in the 1500s found Native Americans living in the Everglades; in the late 1830s the Everglades was the scene of military operations against the Seminole . Large tracts of land were…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
marshy, low-lying subtropical savanna area, c.4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km), S Fla., extending from Lake Okeechobee S to Florida Bay. Characterized by water, sawgrass, hammocks (islandlike masses of vegetation), palms, pine and mangrove forests, and solidly packed black muck (resulting from millions of…
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From The Encyclopedia of Tourism and Recreation in Marine Environments
The Everglades are located in southern Florida, USA. This endangered ecosystem stretches 1120 km south from Lake Okeechobee, which is fed by the Kissimmee River, to Florida Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. Originally, the Everglades ecosystem was a wide, slow-moving river of marsh and sawgrass covering…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Subtropical area of swamps, marsh, and lakes in southern Florida, USA; area 7,000 sq km/2,700 sq mi. Formed by the overflow of Lake Okeechobee after heavy rains, it is one of the wildest areas in the USA, with distinctive plant and animal life, including alligators. The natural vegetation of the…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
A freshwater marsh, dominated by saw grass and...
Subtropical saw-grass marsh region, southern Florida, U.S. Covering more than 4,300 sq mi (11,100 sq km), the area has water moving slowly through it from the lip of Lake Okeechobee to mangrove swamps bordering the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay. Everglades National Park, established in 1947, …
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From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
Area of subtropical wetlands and freshwater swamp in S Florida, USA covering c.13,000 km 2 , much of it within the Everglades National Park. Identified by the RAMSAR convention as one of the three most important wetland sites globally. Much of it comprises large shallow lakes like L Okeechobee, …
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The vegetation and flora of south Florida have...
USA Criteria - Major stages of Earth’s history; Significant ecological and biological processes; Significant natural habitat for biodiversity Everglades National Park, pictured below, on the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula has been called ‘a river of grass flowing imperceptibly from the…
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From Cultural Studies: The UFO Encyclopedia
James Flynn of East Fort Myers, Florida, set out on Friday, March 12, 1965, on an expedition deep into the Everglades, taking with him his four hunting dogs. An experienced woodsman, he planned to stay for a few days. Late on the evening of the fourteenth, the dogs spotted a deer and took off after…
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The Florida Everglades, so eloquently described by the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as a “river of grass,” are a unique area. This 1,700-square-mile wetland is part a of a 9,000-square-mile ecosystem that includes the Kissimmee River basin and Lake Okeechobee and provides the biologic and…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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