Dry Tortugas

American  

[tawr-too-guhz] / tɔrˈtu gəz /

plural noun

1. a group of ten small islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico W of Key West: a part of Florida; the site of Fort Jefferson.

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Dry Tortugas British  

/ tɔːˈtuːɡəz /

noun

1. a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida

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Dry Tortugas

Virgin Islands as well as data from other U.S. territories in the Caribbean and western Atlantic, including Florida, Puerto Rico, and Dry Tortugas.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024

About 200 years ago, 11 islands made up the Dry Tortugas National Park.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

A cemetery and a quarantine hospital dating back to the 19th century were found underwater off Garden Key island in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park, the National Park Service announced.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2023

Dry Tortugas National Park remained closed to the public late Tuesday after hundreds of migrants arrived by boat at the remote islands on the tip of the Florida Keys in recent days.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

All were sent to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a baking-hot group of islands about eighty miles west of the Florida Keys.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly