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Samphire Keys
Geographic Location
Located in Florida Bay, 1.5 miles due south of mainland Terrapin Point.
Reference
So named on U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey chart #1250 (1940).
Scope Note
Named in the 1930's by Charles M. Brookfield for the plant Samphire (Samphire ambigua Michx.) which he found growing in abundance there.  
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