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Aerial view Map of Florida showing major cities such as Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Tallahassee, as well as notable features like Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, and the Florida Keys. State boundaries with Alabama and Georgia are marked, and surrounding bodies of water include the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. A great blue heron stands in shallow water among tall grasses in a Florida wetland at Everglades National Park, with marsh vegetation and a partly cloudy sky in the background. Flamingo A large white and pink bird with a flat spoon-shaped bill standing on one leg in water. On the prowl Owls in the Everglades Eagle in the Everglades An American alligator stands partially on a log and partially in shallow water among tree roots in Everglades National Park, Florida. Everglades National Park
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  • Tracy Grant
    Tracy Grant is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She previously served as editor in chief, the first woman to hold that title. 

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Type Description Contributor Date
Article thoroughly revised; slideshow added. Sep 29, 2026
Add new Web site: PBS - Everglades National Park, Florida, United States. Mar 22, 2022
Add new Web site: The National Wildlife Federation - The Everglades, Florida, United States. Mar 22, 2022
Add new Web site: NASA Earth Observatory - Everglades National Park. Nov 08, 2019
Add new Web site: Florida Museum - About the Everglades. Jan 24, 2019
Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Everglades National Park. Jan 24, 2019
Replaced photograph. May 22, 2018
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Channel - How a Giant Lazy River of Grass Became the Everglades. Feb 15, 2017
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Everglades National Park, Florida, United States. Dec 13, 2016
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Everglades National Park, Florida, United States. Dec 13, 2016
Added map. Sep 01, 2011
Article revised and updated. Nov 01, 2010
In 2010 it was added to UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger. Aug 02, 2010
New article added. Feb 16, 2010
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