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Concourse A (18.6) 59.5 Miami Jewelry District Coral Terrace The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with an area of about 106,460,000 square kilometers (41,100,000 square miles) it covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area it separates the "Old World" from the "New World". Race ethnicity religion and languages 6 References (20.3) 70.8 The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed; .