Lois Key

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Lois Key
Lois Key is located in Florida
Lois Key
Lois Key
Lois Key
Geography
LocationGulf of Mexico
Coordinates24°36′51.65″N 81°28′29.66″W / 24.6143472°N 81.4749056°W / 24.6143472; -81.4749056Coordinates: 24°36′51.65″N 81°28′29.66″W / 24.6143472°N 81.4749056°W / 24.6143472; -81.4749056
ArchipelagoFlorida Keys
Adjacent bodies of waterFlorida Straits
Administration
StateFlorida
CountyMonroe

Lois Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Key West.[1]

Lois Key is not connected to the rest of the Florida Keys by bridge or by land. It is uninhabited, but until 1999, was the site of a commercially operated breeding colony of rhesus monkeys.

It can be accessed by boat from Summerland Key and was the subject of a controversial article in Slate magazine on Monkeyfishing which turned out to be fabricated.

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