Florida Keys Trivia

Interesting Facts About the Florida Keys!

Florida Keys Trivia is a treasure chest of amazing facts about the history and geography of the Florida Keys.

Florida Keys Trivia

The Florida Keys are composed of Key Largo limestone and coral.

The Florida Keys consists of 1700 islands.

Key Largo, Florida is nicknamed the "Scuba Diving Capital of the World".

The Spanish Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first visited the area that would become the Florida Keys in the year 1513.

The Florida Keys declared their independence by seceding from the United States in 1982.

Key West was originally named "Cayo Hueso" which means Isle of Bones. It was named Cayo Hueso due to the many Indian remains scattered across the island.

The Florida Keys have been home to Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and other famous people.

The first permanent settlers arrived in the Florida Keys in 1822. They salvaged shipwrecks and fished for their survival.

The original "African Queen" steamboat can be viewed in Key Largo, Florida.

The Florida Keys are approximately 223 miles long.

Cuba is 90 miles from Key West which is closer than Miami.

Addresses in the Florida Keys are designated as MM (mile markers). MM 0 begins in Key West and goes to MM 106 on the north end of Key Largo.

There are 42 bridges that connect the Florida Keys.

The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane remians the greatest Keys disaster, destroying property and killing hundreds of people. In all, over 400 people were killed, nearly all in the Keys.

The Loggerhead turtle is the most common sea turtle found in the Keys.

Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States.

Islamorada, Florida is nicknamed the "Fishing Capital of the World".

There are over 600 species of fish in the coral reefs of the Florida Keys.

The longest bridge in the Florida Keys is 7 miles long. Appropriately named the "7 Mile Bridge".

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was the first undersea park in the United States.

The "Christ of the Abyss" statue is the most photographed underwater attraction in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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