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The First Coast is a region of Florida, in the United States. It extends along the Atlantic, or eastern, coast of the state, from the Georgia border, past the southern end of Anastasia Island, to Marineland. The name First Coast is an intentional double entendre; it denotes first of all, the fact that the oldest permanent European settlement (St. Augustine) lies within its boundaries, and secondly, that it is, quite literally, the "first coast" of Florida that a voyager would encounter while traveling along the eastern seaboard of the United States.