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East Rockland Key

East Rockland Key

Island in the lower Florida Keys, United States

East Rockland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Key West.

Quick Facts Geography, Location ...

U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the edge of the key at approximately mile markers 8–9.5, between Boca Chica Key and Big Coppitt Key.

It is located directly across the Overseas Highway from Rockland Key.

Flora and fauna

There is endangered population of marsh rabbits (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) [1] on island.

References

  1. [1]
    Rosanna M. Tursi1, Phillip T. Hughes and Eric A. Hoffman Taxonomy versus phylogeny: evolutionary history of marsh rabbits without hopping to conclusions Archived 2019-06-05 at the Wayback Machine A Journal of Conservation Biogeography Diversity and Distributions, (Diversity Distrib.) (2012) 1–14



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