East Rockland Key

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox islands East Rockland Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys about Template:Convert east of Key West.

U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the edge of the key at approximately mile markers 8–9.5, between Boca Chica Key and Big Coppitt Key.

It is located directly across the Overseas Highway from Rockland Key.

Flora and fauna

There is endangered population of marsh rabbits (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) [1] on island.

References

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  1. Rosanna M. Tursi1, Phillip T. Hughes and Eric A. Hoffman Taxonomy versus phylogeny: evolutionary history of marsh rabbits without hopping to conclusions Template:Webarchive A Journal of Conservation Biogeography Diversity and Distributions, (Diversity Distrib.) (2012) 1–14