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Fixing references. "404" and "Page Not Found" in CS1 errors: generic title. Also general fixes, including application of WP:GEOLINK.

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{{Short description|Island in the middle Florida Keys, United States}}
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| image_name = Boot Key Harbor, Looking North.jpg
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'''Boot Key''' is an island in the middle [[Florida Keys]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Zepke | first=T. | title=Terrance Talk Travel: A Pocket Guide to the Florida Keys: Including The Everglades & Key West | publisher=Safari Publishing | series=Terrance Talks Travel | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-942738-25-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHMqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT57 | access-date=September 7, 2017 | page=pt57}}</ref> located adjacent to [[Key Vaca]]. Boot Key is within the city limits of [[Marathon, Florida]], United States. The island is largely undeveloped. A draw bridge that once connected the island to Key Vaca was demolished by the city in 2010 after failing FDOT's inspection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.marathon.fl.us/index.asp?nid%3D46 |title=The City of Marathon FL |access-date=July 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004032450/http://ci.marathon.fl.us/index.asp?NID=46 |archive-date=October 4, 2006 }}</ref>

"Boot Key has been protected from development since 2011 by [[NOAA]]’s Coastal & Estuarine Land Conservation Program."<ref>{{cite web |last1=aquaventures |title=Keys Less Traveled: Boot Key |url=http://flkeyskayak.com/key-less-traveled/keys-less-traveled-boot-key-2 |website=flkeyskayak.com |date=6 August 2015 |access-date=Sep 16, 2019}}</ref>

Immediately adjacent to Boot Key is a {{convert|38|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract of land from which the United States Government broadcasts [[Radio Marti]].<ref>http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28845579_ITM {{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref> These broadcasts consist of anti-communist news and information directed towards residents of [[Cuba]], in an attempt to support opposition against the Cuban government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibb.gov/ |title=Home |website=ibb.gov}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2016}}

A [[Birdwatching|hawk watch]] is conducted every fall on Boot Key.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(no title) |url=https://floridakeyshawkwatch.com/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=floridakeyshawkwatch.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Education==
It is in the [[Monroe County School District (Florida)|Monroe County School District]]. It is zoned to Stanley Switick Elementary School (K-8) in Marathon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1T2ezzBv7uOPDkB8e4T3I1KrTlGl-vQi4&ll=24.95337951260486%2C-80.51270417265626&z=11|title=Elementary Schools: Boca Chica to Ocean Reef/County Line|publisher=[[Monroe County School District (Florida)|Monroe County School District]]|accessdate=2022-08-01}} - [https://www.keysschools.com/Page/653 Linked from]</ref>

==References==
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{{Florida Keys}}

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[[Category:Islands of the Florida Keys]]
[[Category:Islands of Monroe County, Florida]]
[[Category:Islands of Florida]]

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imported>Spartathenian: Fixing references. "404" and "Page Not Found" in CS1 errors: generic title. Also general fixes, including application of WP:GEOLINK.