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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
The
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
is a
U.S. National Marine Sanctuary
in the
Florida Keys
. It includes the
Florida Reef
, the only barrier coral reef in
North America
and the third-largest
coral
barrier reef
in the world. It also has extensive
mangrove
forest and
seagrass
fields. The marine sanctuary includes a 2,800 square nautical mile (9,600 km²) area surrounding the Keys and reaching into the
Atlantic Ocean
,
Florida Bay
and the
Gulf of Mexico
. The sanctuary was established in 1990.
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