Marquesas Keys

The Marquesas Keys (certainly not to be confused using the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) inside Pacific Ocean) form an uninhabited island group in relation to 30 miles (50 km) west of Key West, 4 miles (6 km) in diameter, in addition to inhabited by mangrove. They may be an unincorporated area involving Monroe County, Florida in addition to belong to the Lower Keys Census County Division. They are protected included in the Key West National Fauna Refuge. The Marquesas were utilized for target practice through the military as recently seeing that 1980.


The entire area, including the lagune, measures 29.37 km2. The land region, according to the United States Census Bureau, is six.58 km2 (exactly half-dozen,579,703 m2), water area 0.17 km2 (165,744 m2), that has a combined area 6,80 km2 (6,745,447 m2), whereby water areas with connection to the open sea are certainly not counted, but only little landlocked lakes on the particular Keys. The group is situated at coordinates 2434'19N 8207'10W? / ?24.57194N eighty two.11944W? / 24.57194; -eighty-two.11944Coordinates: 2434'19N 8207'10W? / ?twenty four.57194N 82.11944W? / per day.57194; -82.11944.

The islands are part of the particular Florida Keys, separated in the rest of the Florida Keys, which are further east, by the Boca Grande Channel, that is 6 miles (10 km) wide until Boca Grande Key, your westernmost of the Scuff Keys. Only the Dried Tortugas are farther gulf, 36 miles (60 km) west of your Marquesas Keys.

The key lagoon is called Mooney Harbor. The northern most key is the greatest and has a reel of sandy beach freed from mangrove. In the previous it was known because "Entrance Key". It surrounds the lagoon in its northern border and east. Adjoining in the south are smaller keys including Gull Keys, Mooney Have Key, and finally about four unnamed keys in your southwest corner of this tropical isle. Older charts show that two of these tips once were named "Key Island" and "Round Is".

Six miles (10 km) west of the Marquesas Keys is Rebecca Shoal.