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Marathon is a city on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key islands in the middle Florida Keys, in Monroe County,Florida, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 10,255. As of 2005, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,626. Marathon is a major sportsfishing destination, with several charter fishing boats departing from local marinas every morning to both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Bountiful reefs around Marathon make it a popular diving, snorkeling, spearfishing, and lobstertickling area. One of the last untouched tropical hardwood hammocks in the Keys is found at Crane Point Museum, just a few miles west of Florida Keys Marathon Airport. This airport is also one of the most reliable sites in the entire United States to see the hard-to-find Antillean Nighthawk. Like the rest of the Keys in summer, Gray Kingbird are often seen on telephone wires along US 1 and Black-whiskered Vireo incessantly sing in the hammocks. Marathon is the home of the Fisherman's Hospital in the west end of the city. It is one of just three hospitals in the Florida Keys. Marathon is home to another "hospital" – The Turtle Hospital, one of a handful of facilities in the United States with the ability to rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured sea turtles. The City of Marathon offers many restaurants, including the popular The Island Tiki Bar and Grill, Catch 53, Burdines, Keys Fisheries, Castaway, and The Stuffed Pig. Marathon derives much of its livelihood from the ocean and seafood is a staple at most restaurants. Marathon holds the distinction of having the tallest building in the Keys, Bonefish Tower at 143 feet (44 m) on Coco Plum. Sombrero Country Club, the only country club in the Keys, is located here. It has been hit hard by several recent hurricanes. Marathon hostsBurrowing Owls. The late noted Keys historian Dan Gallager in his book "Florida's Great Ocean Railway" credits New York playwright Wiiter Bynner for naming Marathon. According to Gallager, J.R. Parrott, then Florida East Coast Railway's President and General Manager, invited Brynner to the Keys to 'plot stations for the railroad.' When asked to generate a name for the station at Key Vaca, Brynner proposed the name Marathon, inspired by the following passage from Byron: "The mountains look on Marathon -- and Marathon looks on the sea." You can visit our Orlando to Miami bus page for more details about our services, offers and discounts. Also, you can always visit our webpage @ www.myFloridaShuttleBus.com.
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