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Geiger Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about 5 miles east of Key West. Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys are an archipelago, a string of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. ...
Map of Key West Key West is a city located in Monroe County, Florida. ...
It is located to the south of, and bridged to, Big Coppitt Key via Boca Chica Road (Monroe County Road 941) at approximately mile marker 11 on U.S. Route 1 (or the Overseas Highway). Big Coppitt Key is a census-designated place and town located in island of the same name in the Florida Keys. ...
U.S. Route 1 (also called U.S. Highway 1, and abbreviated US 1) is a United States highway which parallels the east coast of the United States. ...
The Matecumbe Keys toll booth on June 21, 1938. ...
It is home to the small trailer park community of Tamarac, Geiger Key Pub & Grill and Geiger Key Marina.
It was named after the Geiger tree, Cordia Sebestena L., which in turn was named by John James Audubon for Captain Geiger. Captain Geiger was a successful Key West wrecker with whom Audubon lived during his 1832 stay in the keys. A.D. Bache, in the notes for his Coast Survey conducted in 1861 says of the key: "Geiger's Key is 2 miles long and 1 mile wide. It was in good cultivation in 1855, and was then inhabited by an industrious German, from whom it derived its name."[1] John James Audubon John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a Franco-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. ...
Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a ship which has foundered near or close to shore. ...
References
- ^ http://keys.fiu.edu/gazetteer/00000325.htm "Key Names" Florida Keys Gazetteer
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