Big Island
Big Island is an island in Brevard, Florida. Big Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Angel City, as well as near Footman.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.
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 Angel City and Cocoa Beach.
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.
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.
Merritt Island
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Merritt Island is a peninsula in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the name of an unincorporated town in the central and southern parts of the island and a census-designated place.
Big Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Brevard County, Florida, United States of America
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.3389° or 28° 20′ 20″ northLongitude
-80.63839° or 80° 38′ 18″ westOpen location code
76WX89Q6+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 358691889OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4147743Wikidata ID
Q32841342
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Big Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Big Island”
- Turkish: “Big Adacığı”
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