Lois Key | |
Nickname: | --> |
Pushpin Map: | Florida#Caribbean |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Lois Key |
Location: | Gulf of Mexico |
Archipelago: | Florida Keys |
Waterbody: | Florida Straits |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Florida |
Country Admin Divisions Title 1: | County |
Country Admin Divisions 1: | Monroe |
Lois Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 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.