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Map of Biscayne National Park [3]. Biscayne National Park comprises 172,971 acres (270.3 sq mi; 700.0 km 2) in Miami-Dade County in southeast Florida. [1] Extending from just south of Key Biscayne southward to just north of Key Largo, the park includes Soldier Key, the Ragged Keys, Sands Key, Elliott Key, Totten Key and Old Rhodes Key, as well as smaller islands that form the northernmost ...
The creation of Biscayne National Monument (which later became Biscayne National Park) in 1968 protected the northern part of the Florida Reef. In 1990 the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was established, bringing all of the Florida reef into federal or state protection. [17]
Biscayne National Park is one the largest marine parks in the National Park System. About 95% of its more than 173,000 acres is water, and there’s only one mile of paved road.
Diving With a Purpose was founded in 2005 by Kenneth Stewart (born 1944/45), [5] a retired copier repairman [6] with the Tennessee Aquatic Project and the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, and Brenda Lanzendorf (1958–2008), [7] a maritime archaeologist at Biscayne National Park. [2]
Soldier Key is an island in Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida.It is located between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, about three miles north of the Ragged Keys, five miles south of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne, seven-and-a-half miles east of the mainland and three miles west of Fowey Rocks.
The park has more than a mile of sandy Atlantic beachfront, where snorkeling and swimming is possible. Besides the beach and tours of the lighthouse and keeper's quarters, activities include boating, canoeing, kayaking and fishing from the seawall along Biscayne Bay, bicycling, hiking and wildlife viewing.
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Sands Key is an island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park. It is in Miami-Dade County, Florida . It is located in lower Biscayne Bay , between Elliott Key and Boca Chita Key .