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150 Mile Long Chain of IslandsThis 150 mile long chain of islands made of fossilized coral rock has seen the likes of pirates and buded treasure, scavengers of shipwrecks, and fortune hunters.

Smugglers and slave traders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found cover in the lush, dark hardwood hammocks of the islands. Similar to those found in the Everglades, the hammocks of the keys support gumbo-limbo trees, Jamaican dogwood, strangler fig, mahogany, and other tropical plants common to the West Indies.