About the Marquesas Keys

The Marquesas Keys essentially consists of a a small group of land masses that make up a modestly-sized island (around four miles or six kilometers in diameter) about thirty miles – that's fifty kilometers – west of Key West. No people live in the Marquesas Keys island, and this is not all that surprising, considering that the Marquesas Keys is practically taken over by mangrove – the northernmost key, however, has a large strip of mangrove-free sand. Only three of the keys of the Florida Marquesas are known to have names: the Entrance Key, the Gull Keys and the Mooney Harbor Key. The Marquesas Keys are also home to the Mooney Harbor Lagoon, located at the center of the island. Ten kilometers west of the Marquesas Keys would be the famed Rebecca Shoal (a coral bank on which a light house once stood).

If you look at it on a map, it would be easy to assume that it is part of Florida's Monroe County. However, it's not officially incorporated as of yet. That being said, the Marquesas Keys are nevertheless recognized as an official part of the Florida Keys system (even though it is separated from the rest of the Keys by the Boca Grande Channel. There are two major activities that people like indulging in when in the Marquesas Keys: sport fishing and diving.