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The Alligator Reef Light sits on Alligator Reef. A wreck traditionally considered as the remains of USS Alligator is located 200 feet southwest of the lighthouse and can be seen by snorkelers and divers year-round; however a 1996 expedition has challenged this identification, and the wreck is probably that of another 19th c. ship. [2]
Alligator Reef Light is located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) east of Indian Key, near the Matecumbe Keys of Florida in the United States, north of Alligator Reef itself. The station was established in 1873.
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge was once entirely platted for residential development; however, accumulated deposits of dredge-spoils on the bayside of North Key Largo became an important nesting area for some of the country's remaining American crocodiles [1] which have recovered in recent years from a low, in 1975, of approximately 200 in population size.
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 ...
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The Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center is a natural history museum in Key West. [1] Its exhibits cover the plants and animals of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary . It is operated by Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary , NOAA , the South Florida Water Management District , Everglades National Park , Dry Tortugas National Park , the ...
The base called for backup from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to assist the alligator in finding a better place for a little shut eye, but the alligator wasn't too happy ...
A rare instance of a large alligator forcing its way into a home has been reported in Southwest Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.