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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