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Passenger The newspaper averages 88 pages daily and 212 pages on Sundays.[needs update]. . The island was named by Frederick H Gerdes of the United States Coast Survey in 1849 He noted that the island north of Key Biscayne had no name and had not existed as an island until 'Narrows Cut' had broken through "ten or twelve" years before (i.e the hurricane of 1835 or 1838) He described Virginia Key as three miles (5 km) long and one mile (1.6 km) wide (later as five miles (8 km) long and one-and-a-half miles wide) with a fine Atlantic beach but mostly covered with mangroves; Civil Rights Movement, 2 Geography 6.4 Growth of urban areas, 5.1 Natural hazards Area 7 Education Mary Brickell Village.

From 1858 to 1896 only a handful of families made their homes in the Miami area Those that did lived in small settlements along Biscayne Bay the first of these settlements formed at the mouth of the Miami River and was variously called Miami Miamuh and Fort Dallas Foremost among the Miami River settlers were the Brickells William Brickell had previously lived in Cleveland Ohio California and Australia where he met his wife Mary in 1870 Brickell bought land on the south bank of the river the Brickells and their children operated a trading post and post office on their property for the rest of the 19th century. . Kirill Reznik As the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas" the port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk vehicles and industrial equipment It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States As a world-class port PortMiami is among an elite group of ports in the world which cater to both cruise ships and containerized cargo, The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key. 7 Climate School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 4.1 Water Media Red mangrove trees bordering a tidal estuary in the Everglades Alternatively nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also serves commercial traffic in the Miami area Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Opa-locka and Miami Executive Airport in an unincorporated area southwest of Miami serve general aviation traffic in the Miami area. With the rise of sea levels that occurred during the Pleistocene approximately 17,000 years ago the runoff of water from Lake Okeechobee slowed and created the vast marshland that is now known as the Everglades Slower runoff also created an accumulation of almost 18 feet (5.5 m) of peat in the area the presence of such peat deposits dated to about 5,000 years ago is evidence that widespread flooding had occurred by then. Other popular cultural destinations in or near Miami include Zoo Miami Jungle Island the Miami Seaquarium Monkey Jungle Coral Castle Charles Deering Estate Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and Key Biscayne.