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Florida Bay is the shallow bay
Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
 located between the southern end of the Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
 mainland (the Florida Everglades
Everglades

The Everglades are a tropics wetland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large Drainage basin....
) and the Florida Keys
Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, Florida, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, Florida, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tort...
. Its area is variously stated to be , or , or . Nearly all of Florida Bay is included in Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is a List of areas in the United States National Park System in the U.S. state of Florida. The largest Subtropics wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida....
. The southern edge, along the Florida Keys is in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in the Florida Keys. It includes the third-largest coral coral reef in the world....
. The bay mud
Bay mud

Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuary, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles....
s of portions of Florida Bay have been cored to develop insights on the paleontology
Paleontology

File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
 of previous biota.

It is considered the "waterspout
Waterspout

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward....
 capital of the world" as the area has as many as 500 waterspouts per year.






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Florida Bay is the shallow bay
Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
 located between the southern end of the Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
 mainland (the Florida Everglades
Everglades

The Everglades are a tropics wetland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large Drainage basin....
) and the Florida Keys
Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, Florida, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, Florida, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tort...
. Its area is variously stated to be , or , or . Nearly all of Florida Bay is included in Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is a List of areas in the United States National Park System in the U.S. state of Florida. The largest Subtropics wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida....
. The southern edge, along the Florida Keys is in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in the Florida Keys. It includes the third-largest coral coral reef in the world....
. The bay mud
Bay mud

Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuary, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles....
s of portions of Florida Bay have been cored to develop insights on the paleontology
Paleontology

File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
 of previous biota.

It is considered the "waterspout
Waterspout

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward....
 capital of the world" as the area has as many as 500 waterspouts per year. They are most common from June to October, but can occur anytime of the year.

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