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2. Marquesas Keys - Wikipedia

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   Only the Dry Tortugas are farther west, 36 miles (58 km) west of the Marquesas Keys. The central lagoon is called Mooney Harbor. The northernmost key is the largest and has a strip of sandy beach free of mangrove. In the past it was known as "Entrance Key". It surrounds the lagoon in the north and east.

3. You’ll have to get wet to make the most out of Dry Tortugas ...

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   A visitor snorkels off Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park in March 2006. ... Dry Tortugas National Park lies roughly 70 miles west of Key West. ... Visitors tour Fort Jefferson at Dry ...

4. Key West National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   The Key West National Wildlife Refuge is a 189,497 acre (766.867 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Monroe County, Florida, between Key West, Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Only 2,019 acres (8.171 km 2 ) of land are above sea level, on several keys within the refuge.

5. Fort Jefferson (Florida) - Wikipedia

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   Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, [2] [3] covering 16 acres (6.5 ha) and made with over 16 million bricks. [4]

6. Conch Republic - Wikipedia

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   During the U.S. federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996, as a protest, the republic sent a flotilla of Conch Navy, civilian, and fire department boats to Fort Jefferson, located in Dry Tortugas National Park, to reopen it. The action was dubbed a "full-scale invasion" by the Conch Republic.

7. Long Live the Conch Republic - AOL

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   The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

8. History of Key West - Wikipedia

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   Following Spain's secession of Florida to the United States in 1819, the first permanent colonization of Key West began with American possession in 1821. [6] Legal claim of the island occurred with the purchase by businessman, John W. Simonton, in 1822, in which federal property was asserted only three months later with the arrival of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Mathew C. Perry.

9. Dry Tortugas National Park - Wikipedia

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   Communications with Key West are accomplished using a satellite-based voice-over-IP system, which is prone to garbling and delays, and by a radio relay system using an abandoned Air Force tower between Key West and the Dry Tortugas. [37] Visitation steadily rose for several decades, reaching a peak of 83,704 in 2000.