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Ingraham Lake

Coordinates: 25°09′28″N 81°06′28″W / 25.15778°N 81.10778°W / 25.15778; -81.10778
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Ingraham Lake
Location of Ingraham Lake in Florida, USA.
Location of Ingraham Lake in Florida, USA.
Ingraham Lake
Location of Ingraham Lake in Florida, USA.
Location of Ingraham Lake in Florida, USA.
Ingraham Lake
LocationEverglades National Park, Monroe County, Florida, US
Coordinates25°09′28″N 81°06′28″W / 25.15778°N 81.10778°W / 25.15778; -81.10778
Primary outflowsEast Cape Canal
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation0 m (0 ft)

Ingraham Lake is a lake in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It located within the limits of Everglades National Park.[1] It is the southernmost lake in the continental United States, located in Cape Sable, and is less than 1,000 acres (4 km2) in size. It is 71 miles (114 km) southwest of Miami. It is accessible to the Gulf Of Mexico by the Middle Cape Canal at its northern border of the lake. It is accessible to Florida Bay by East Cape Canal, at the southern border of the lake.[2] The entire lake is at sea level.

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  1. ^ Holt, Ernest Golsan; Sutton, George Miksch (1926). Notes on Birds Observed in Southern Florida. pp. 427–434.
  2. ^ Taft, William Harrison; Harbaugh, John Warvelle (1964). Modern Carbonate Sediments of Southern Florida, Bahamas, and Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California: A Comparison of Their Mineralogy and Chemistry. Stanford University Press. p. 16.