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Bressay lies due south of Whalsay, west of the Isle of Noss, and north of Mousa.With an area of 11 square miles (28 km 2), it is the fifth-largest island in Shetland.The population is around 360 people, [2] concentrated in the middle of the west coast, around Glebe and Fullaburn.
At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
Until the mid-20th century, Florida was the least-populous state in the southern United States. In 1900, its population was only 528,542, of whom nearly 44% were African American, the same proportion as before the Civil War. [57] Forty thousand blacks, roughly one-fifth of their 1900 population levels in Florida, left the state in the Great ...
The emergent landmass of Florida was Orange Island, a low-relief island sitting atop the carbonate Florida Platform which emerged about 34 to 28 million years ago. [7] When glaciation locked up the world's water, starting 2.58 million years ago, the sea level dropped precipitously. It was approximately 100 meters (330 ft) lower than present levels.
The name Noss comes from the Old Norse nǫs, meaning nose. [8] The fact that the name given was nǫs and not nǫsøy (nose island) - as is the way most other islands of a similar size are named in Shetland - suggests that the island was originally a peninsula attached to the neighbouring Bressay, and that at some point between the arrival of the Vikings and the 16th century the isthmus joining ...
Bressay Lighthouse, Including Keeper's Accommodation, Toilet Block, Engine House, Oil Tanks, Horn House, Stores, Boundary Wall And Gatepiers 60°07′13″N 1°07′18″W / 60.120154°N 1.121547°W / 60.120154; -1.121547 ( Bressay Lighthouse, Including Keeper's Accommodation, Toilet Block, Engine House, Oil Tanks, Horn House ...
Nassau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.It is the northeasternmost county in the state. The county seat is Fernandina Beach.The population was 90,352 at the 2020 census.
Volusia County (/ v ə ˈ l uː ʃ ə /, və-LOO-shə) is a county located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean.As of the 2020 census, the county was home to 553,543 people, an increase of 11.9% from the 2010 census.