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Totten Key
Totten Key is located in Florida
Totten Key
Totten Key
Location in Florida
Totten Key is located in North Atlantic
Totten Key
Totten Key
Location in North Atlantic
Geography
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

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.

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