포르 제퍼슨 요새(미국 플로리다)

포르 제퍼슨 요새(미국 플로리다)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jefferson_%28Florida%29

In late December 1824 and early January 1825, about five years after Spain sold Florida to the United States for $5 million, U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter inspected the Dry Tortugas islands. He was on the lookout for a site for a naval station that would help suppress piracy in the Caribbean. Unimpressed with what he saw, he notified the Secretary of the Navy that the Dry Tortugas were unfit for any kind of naval establishment. He reported that they consist of small sand islands a little above the surface of the ocean, have no fresh water, scarcely enough land to place a fortification, and in any case are probably not solid enough to bear one.

19세기에 멕시코만의 무역로를 해적들로부터 지키키 위해 해군 요새로 지은 곳이다.

플로리다 주 드라이토르투가스 국립공원(Dry Tortugas National Park)에 속해있다.

위치는 위 지도를 참고.

뭔가 미국같지 않은 느낌이 드는 곳이다.