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The state-sanctioned Everglades National Park Commission proposed a national park for the Everglades, including the reefs off Key Largo. Opposition from property owners, outdoorsmen, and Monroe County Commissioners stopped the plan. When Everglades National Park was created in 1947, the boundaries did not include Key Largo or any of the reefs. [3]
The 9-foot (2.7 m) tall statue Christ of the Deep, placed in less than 25 feet (7.6 m) of water in a sand channel on the offshore side of the Dry Rocks reef on August 25, 1965, in what at that time was part of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, was included in the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary.
The densest and most spectacular reefs, along with the highest water clarity, are found to the seaward of Key Largo (in and beyond John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park) and Elliott Key (the northernmost 'true' Florida Key) where the two long keys help protect the reefs from the effects of water exchange with Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, Card ...
Development activities may cause erosion resulting in the runoff of sediments which eventually reach the coral reefs. Storm water runoff may carry fertilizers into the ocean causing damage to the coral reefs, and an increase of nutrient concentrations in the reef may cause an increase of algae which may smother the corals. Sizable foreign ...
Aquarius is located under 20 m (66 ft) of water at the base of a coral reef within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, an ideal site for studying the health of sensitive coral reefs. The laboratory is most often used by marine biologists for whom Aquarius acts as home base as they study the coral reef, the fish and aquatic plants that ...
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
Shorty’s Diner on Duval Street was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who walked to breakfast when he stayed at the Little White House in Key West. Shorty’s closed in 1989. Miami Herald File
French Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.It lies 11 kilometres (5.9 nmi; 6.8 mi) southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.