St. Lucie Inlet, Florida

St. Lucie Inlet

The St. Lucie Inlet, Florida is located between Hutchinson Island and Jupiter Island in Martin County, Florida, at coordinates 27°09′58″N 80°09′24″W / 27.16611°N 80.15667°W / 27.16611; -80.15667. The St. Lucie Inlet is one of six inlets into the Indian River Lagoon.

The St. Lucie Inlet appeared on maps in 1500 and 1683. It was the site of the Ais town of Santa Lucea, which Jonathan Dickinson's party passed through in 1696. As is true for most inlets between barrier islands, the inlet closed and opened repeatedly in the past through natural process. The inlet has been kept open for the past century-and-a-half by frequent dredging.

References

Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center page on St. Lucie Inlet - URL retrieved June 19, 2006

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Coastal waters of Florida

Bays	Apalachicola Biscayne Blackwater Choctawhatchee East Escambia Estero Florida Palm Pensacola Perdido Ponce de Leon Sarasota St. Andrews Tampa Whitewater

Inlets	Baker's Haulover Blind Pass Captiva Pass Caxambus Pass Gasparilla Pass Hillsboro Lake Worth Matanzas Ponce de León Redfish Pass Sebastian South Lake Worth St. Lucie

Lagoons	Banana River Guana River Halifax River Indian River Lake Worth Marquesas Keys Matanzas River Mosquito Lagoon

See also	Florida Everglades Intracoastal Waterway List of Florida rivers