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Key West

City and port of entry at the tip of the Florida peninsula, USA, on Key West Island, the most westerly of the Florida Keys group, 209 km/130 mi south of Miami; seat of Monroe County; population (2000) 25,500. It is the southernmost city in the continental USA, the home of the naturalist John J Audubon, and was popularized as a tourist resort by the novelist Ernest Hemingway. Other industries include commercial fishing. It is the site of a US naval and air station. Key West was incorporated in 1828.

Key West's natural harbour has been an important US port since the early 1820s. It is linked to Miami by a road (once a railway) along the line of the Florida Keys. In 1967 it became the first city in the USA to take all of its fresh water from the sea.

Key West Island is a coral island.

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