Buck Point
Buck Point is a cape in Brevard, Florida. Buck Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Rockwell, as well as near Georgiana.| 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 4 km northeast of Buck Point.
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. Cocoa Beach High School is situated 3 km northeast of Buck Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Georgiana and Angel City.
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.
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 5 km north of Buck Point.
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.
Buck Point
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
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Latitude
28.29945° or 28° 17′ 58″ northLongitude
-80.65616° or 80° 39′ 22″ westOpen location code
76WX78XV+QGGeoNames ID
4149219
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