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In 1927 the name of Mosquito Inlet was changed to Ponce de Leon Inlet. The lighthouse was transferred from the abolished Lighthouse Service to the United States Coast Guard in 1939, which would oversee it for the next three decades. In 1970, the Coast Guard abandoned the old light station and established a new beacon at New Smyrna Beach. The ...
Location and details of the Ponce de Leon Inlet. Aerial view. The Ponce de Leon Inlet is a natural opening in the barrier islands in central Florida that connects the north end of the Mosquito Lagoon and the south end of the Halifax River to the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet originally was named Mosquito Inlet. In 1926 the Florida Legislature ...
Ponce Inlet lies on a peninsula at (29.094744, –80.942599), [4] adjacent to the Ponce de León Inlet, and between the Halifax River and Atlantic According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 14.7 square miles (38 km 2 ), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km 2 ) is land and 10.3 square miles (27 km 2 ) (70.48%) is water.
Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon Inlet is a United States Coast Guard boat station located in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and is part of the Coast Guard 7th District, Sector Jacksonville. [ 1 ] While in the late 1980s, the crew consisted of only 4 men, [ 2 ] the crew at Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon Inlet now is made of 31 active duty and 15 ...
[5] [6] [7] Its light marks St. Marys Entrance, the inlet leading to St. Marys River, the Cumberland Sound and the harbor of Fernandina Beach, Florida along the Amelia River. [1] The white light flashes every ten seconds which turns red from 344° to 360° when covering the shoal water in the vicinity of Nassau Sound.
The full length of the Indian River Lagoon is 156 miles (251 km), extending from Ponce de León Inlet in Volusia County, Florida, to Jupiter Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida, [8] [9] and includes Cape Canaveral. In 2016, the northern boundary was moved north-ward to Highbridge Road for management purposes. [10]
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Biscayne Bay is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.The northern end of the lagoon is surrounded by the densely developed heart of the Miami metropolitan area while the southern end is largely undeveloped with a large portion of the lagoon included in Biscayne National Park.