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Florida Keys, chain of islands, islets, and reefs, southern Florida, between the Straits of Florida and Florida Bay, extending southwest and west from Virginia Key, south of Miami Beach to the Dry Tortugas, for about 360 km (about 225 mi). The keys are chiefly limestone and coral formations. The larger islands of the group are Key West, Key Largo, Sugarloaf Key, Duck Key, Marathon, and Boca Chica Key. The keys, distributed between Dade and Monroe counties for administrative purposes, were devastated in a 1935 hurricane. Several of the islands are popular vacation resorts, and fishing and tourism are the leading industries. A causeway extends from the mainland to Key West, the southernmost city of the conterminous United States.
Key West, city, seat of Monroe County, southern Florida, a port of entry on the island of Key West, at the southwestern end of the Florida Keys; incorporated 1828. The southernmost city of the conterminous United States, it is connected to the mainland by the Overseas Highway. The city's economy revolves around tourism, commercial fishing, and U.S. Navy and Coast Guard installations, and a noted artists' colony is here. Among the points of interest in Key West, which is the seat of a junior college, are the homes of the naturalist John J. Audubon and the writer Ernest Hemingway, a lighthouse (1846), and a tropical fish aquarium. Called Cayo Hueso ("island of bones") by Spanish explorers, who found human bones here, it has been an important U.S. port since the early 1820s. Key West was in Union hands during the American Civil War. Population (1980) 24,382; (1990) 24,832.
Florida, Straits of, channel, between the southern tip of Florida and the island of Cuba, linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Traversed by the Gulf Stream, the channel is about 483 km (about 300 mi) long and from 80 to 241 km (50 to 150 mi) wide.
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