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Sombrero Key Light is located offshore of Vaca Key in Marathon, Florida. [2] The lighthouse is located on a mostly submerged reef.The name Sombrero Key goes back to the Spanish, and old charts show a small island at the spot, but by the later 19th Century the island had eroded, with some parts of the reef exposed at low tide.
The Spanish called the reef Cayo Sombrero. As part of the reef was above water at low tide, it was also called "Dry Bank". [3] The Sombrero Key Light was built on the reef in 1858, [4] and continued in use until 2015. [3] The lighthouse tower is unsafe, and boaters are forbidden from tying up to the tower or climbing on it. [5]
Sombrero Lighthouse is a lighthouse that marks the Anegada Passage, which is the route from Europe into the Caribbean. The lighthouse is located near the centre of Sombrero island, and reaches a height of almost 51 metres (167 ft) above sea level.
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Sombrero Key Light: Marathon 1858 1960 2015 (Replaced) None 142 ft (43 ... C. ^ In 1960, the lighthouse was replaced with a skeletal steel tower. The old structure ...
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This Coast Guard site refers to area as Sombrero Key, Dry Bank and Sombrero Shoal. -- Dalbury ( Talk ) 12:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC) [ reply ] Since the best place to see the lighthouse from is the seven mile bridge in Marathon, I imagine people conflated "Marathon" and "key" and decided Marathon was a key.