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Sea Turtle, Inc. is a nonprofit sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation center in South Padre Island, Texas. [1] It is a popular regional ecotourism center, seeing about a quarter million visitors per year. [ 2 ]
Turtle Island is a name for Earth [1] or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation myth common to several indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America. [2] A number of contemporary works continue to use and/or tell the Turtle ...
A Kemp's ridley hatchling, an endangered species of sea turtle, reaches the surf at Padre Island National Seashore during a public release on June 28, 2024, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Turtle shells were also used to make norvas, an instrument resembling a banjo. [26] A bas-relief from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, shows Samudra manthan-Vishnu in the center and his turtle Avatar Kurma below. While eaten in Predynastic, Archaic, and Old Kingdom periods, turtles were used only for medicinal purposes after the Old Kingdom.
Mustang Island is a barrier island on the Gulf Coast of Texas in the United States. The island is 18 miles (29 km) long, stretching from Corpus Christi to Port Aransas . The island is oriented generally northeast–southwest, with the Gulf of Mexico on the east and south, and Corpus Christi Bay on the north and west.
It is said that a great spirit created their homeland by placing earth on the back of a giant turtle; Turtle Island refers to the continent of North America and is associated with healing, wisdom ...
Padre Island Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554 from the Handbook of Texas Online "Spanish Shipwrecks in 1554: "The Wreck of the 300" ". Texas Beyond History. University of Texas at Austin. "Photograph of a Historic Property in Texas" [Artifacts from 1554 Shipwreck at Mansfield Cut Archeological District].
Matagorda Bay (/ ˌ m æ t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ə / ⓘ [2]) is a large Gulf of Mexico bay on the Texas coast, lying in Calhoun and Matagorda counties and located approximately 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Corpus Christi, 143 miles (230 km) east-southeast of San Antonio, 108 miles (174 km) south-southwest of Houston, and 167 miles (269 km) south-southeast of Austin.