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Melody Key is a privately owned island in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. [1] [2] It is 5.5 acres-wide. [1] As of 2012, it was the world's fifth most expensive island. [1] As of January 2017, the island was listed for sale, at an asking price of $7 million. [3]
In the lower Florida Keys Big Mullet Key: 8.72 ha; 21.6 acres Monroe One of the Mule Keys in the lower Florida Keys Big Pine Key: 9.8 square miles (25 km 2) Monroe In the lower Florida Keys Big Talbot Island: Duval: One of the Sea Islands Big Torch Key: Monroe In the lower Florida Keys Bird Key: 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2) Sarasota: Barrier ...
Lovers Key State Park is a 712-acre (2.88 km 2) Florida State Park located on Lover's Key and three other barrier islands—Black Island, Inner and Long Key. It is at 8700 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach, between Big Carlos Pass and New Pass and 10.5 miles (16.9 km) west of Interstate 75 on exit 116.
Summerland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys [2] about 20 miles (32 km) east of Key West; it contains an unincorporated community of Monroe County of the same name.. U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the island at approximately mile markers 24–25.5, between Ramrod Key and Cudjoe Key.
The total area, including the lagoon, measures 29.37 km 2 (11.34 sq mi). The land area, according to the United States Census Bureau, is 6.58 km 2 (2.54 sq mi) (exactly 6,579,703 m 2), the water area 0.17 km 2 (0.066 sq mi) (165,744 m 2), giving a combined area of 6.75 km 2 (2.61 sq mi), not counting water areas with connection to the open sea, but including small landlocked lakes on the Keys.
It was visited by C.W. Pierce in his boat, Bonton (1885). He stopped at the lower end of the key where there was a house with a cistern and replenished his water supply.. The key was a depot site during the railroad years, and it was also the site of the well known Long Key Fishing Camp.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Florida. It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Park Key is an uninhabited island in the lower Florida Keys about 14 miles (23 km) east of Key West. It is 1500 meters long, and between 75 and 260 meters wide (190 meters on the average). It measures 70 acres (28 hectares) in area. The island was made from fill, so that the railroad and later the road bed could be laid down.