Lois Key

Lois Key
Lois Key is located in Florida
Lois Key
Lois Key
Lois Key
Lois Key is located in Caribbean
Lois Key
Lois Key
Lois Key (Caribbean)
Geography
LocationGulf of Mexico
Coordinates24°36′51.65″N 81°28′29.66″W / 24.6143472°N 81.4749056°W / 24.6143472; -81.4749056
ArchipelagoFlorida Keys
Adjacent toFlorida Straits
Administration
StateFlorida
CountyMonroe

Lois Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Key West.[1]

Lois Key is not connected to the rest of the Florida Keys by bridge or by land. It is uninhabited, but until 1999, was the site of a commercially operated breeding colony of rhesus monkeys.

It can be accessed by boat from Summerland Key and was the subject of a controversial article in Slate magazine on Monkeyfishing which turned out to be fabricated.