BIGBEND
Big Bend
The Big Bend of Florida, U.S.A., is an informal region of the state with no official surveyed boundary. It includes part of the counties of the Florida Panhandle. Geologists prefer to characterize Florida’s Big Bend as the drowned karst section of the coast that occurs between the mouth of the Apalachicola River and Southwest Florida’s Central Barrier Coast. Perhaps the most culturally relevant definition of the Big Bend region is the section of west peninsular Florida’s coast without barrier islands—the section from Anclote Key, near Tarpon Springs to Ochlockonee Bay, near Alligator Point. The straight line distance between these two geographic features is about ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Big Bend (Florida)
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