Lake Okeechobee
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Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the largest natural freshwate
Photographed from space, 2000
Lake Okeechobee, from Canal Point, Florida
Lake Okeechobee from space in July 2016
Lake Okeechobee from Pahokee
Everglades
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The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The
Lake Okeechobee
…and is wide enough to accommodate vehicles. Lake Okeechobee sits in a shallow geological trough that also underlies the Kissimmee River Valley and the Everglades. The trough is underlain by clay deposits that compacted more than the limestone and sand deposits did along both coasts of peninsular Florida. Until…
The most prominent feature of the Everglades are the sawgrass prairies found across the region.
Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast
A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades, 1966
Uneven limestone formations in an Everglades sawgrass prairie