Banana River
The Banana River is a 31-mile-long lagoon that lies between the outer barrier islands and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thousand Islands and Cocoa Beach High School.
Thousand Islands
Island
Photo: Timkozusko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Thousand Islands are a group of natural, modified, and spoil islands in the Banana River Lagoon, Cocoa Beach, in Brevard County, Florida. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s the islands were reshaped by development and efforts to control mosquitoes as the population of Brevard grew during the initial period of the space program at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. Thousand Islands is situated 1½ miles northeast of Banana River.
Cocoa Beach High School
School building
Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School is a public junior/senior high school that is a part of the Brevard County Public School System with students in grades seven through twelfth located in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Georgiana and Cocoa Beach.
Georgiana
Hamlet
Georgiana is a populated place located on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida at latitude 28.288673N and longitude 80.671398W. The elevation is 10 feet. Georgiana is situated 2 miles southwest of Banana River.
Cocoa Beach
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Forever linked to Cape Canaveral and the U.S. space program, Cocoa Beach is famous as the setting of the popular 1960s TV show I Dream of Jeannie. Filming for the TV show took place entirely in Southern California in place of Cocoa and Cape Canaveral.
Angel City
Hamlet
Angel City is a populated place on the Horti Point peninsula of Merritt Island, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. Angel City had a post office between 1927 and 1931. Angel City is situated 3 miles north of Banana River.
Banana River
- Type: Lake
- Description: lagoon in Florida, US
- Categories: landform and body of water
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Slovenian—“Banana River” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Banana River”
- Esperanto: “Bananrivero”
- French: “Banana River”
- German: “Banana River”
- Hebrew: “נהר הבננה”
- Slovenian: “Banana River”
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