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   US steam frigate Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico, March 1847: Library of 

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(originally published by N. Currier, New York, 1848).  

     Florida  peninsula,  January  1985:  NASA  Space  Shuttle  Earth  Observations 

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     TAO  (Tropical  Ocean  Atmosphere)  buoy  and  anemometers  on  NOAA  ship 

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