Fort Pickens
Fort Pickens is a historic pentagonal United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Notneb82, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pensacola Light.
Pensacola Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Pensacola Light is a lighthouse at Pensacola Bay, in Florida. It is the third iteration of what was originally a lightship, the Aurora Borealis, and remains an aid to navigation. Pensacola Light is situated 1½ miles northwest of Fort Pickens.
Fort Pickens
- Type: Locality
- Description: fort
- Category: fort
- Location: Escambia, Florida, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Fort Pickens” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “福特皮肯斯”
- Dutch: “Fort Pickens”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن بيكنز”
- French: “fort Pickens”
- French: “Fort Pickens”
- German: “Fort Pickens”
- Hebrew: “פורט פיקנס”
- Japanese: “ピケンズ要塞”
- Japanese: “フォートピケンズ”
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