Totten Key
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Island of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park
| Totten Key | |
Totten Key is located in North Atlantic Totten Key Totten Key Totten Key (North Atlantic) Show map of North Atlantic | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 25°22′47′′N 80°14′54′′W / 25.3796°N 80.2484°W / 25.3796; -80.2484 |
| Administration | |
| State | Florida |
| County | Miami-Dade |
Totten Key is an island of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park. It is in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
It is located in southern Biscayne Bay, just west of Old Rhodes Key.
History
[edit ]It was probably named for General Joseph Totten who was Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army. In 1848, Totten was in charge of a survey of the Florida coast concentrating on Biscayne Bay, with Robert E. Lee as a subordinate.
U.S. Coast Survey chart #68, Florida Reefs, Key Biscayne to Carysfort Reef (1858) has Totten's Key.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Key Names" Florida Keys Gazetteer Archived September 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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