Aquarius Reef Base
The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat located 5.4 mi off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, United States. It is the world's only undersea research laboratory and it is operated by Florida International University.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Research
- Description: underwater habitat
- Also known as: “Aquarius Habitat” and “NOAA Aquarius Reef Base”
Aquarius Reef Base
- Categories: underwater habitat, office, and education
- Location: Monroe, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.95063° or 24° 57′ 2″ northLongitude
-80.45378° or 80° 27′ 14″ westOperator
Florida International UniversityOpen location code
76PXXG2W+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 6555221460OpenStreetMap feature
office=researchWikidata ID
Q623183
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Aquarius Reef Base” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “水瓶座实验室”
- Chinese: “水瓶座實驗室”
- Estonian: “Aquarius Reef Base”
- French: “Aquarius Reef Base”
- German: “Aquarius Reef Base”
- German: “Aquarius Riff Basis”
- German: “Aquarius”
- German: “Unterwasserlabor Aquarius”
- Hungarian: “Aquarius (laboratórium)”
- Hungarian: “Aquarius”
- Indonesian: “Aquarius (laboratorium)”
- Indonesian: “Aquarius”
- Italian: “Aquarius Reef Base”
- Italian: “Aquarius”
- Japanese: “アクエリアス・リーフ・ベース”
- Korean: “아쿠아리우스 연구소”
- Polish: “Aquarius (laboratorium)”
- Polish: “Aquarius”
- Portuguese: “Aquarius”
- Portuguese: “estação oceanográfica Aquarius”
- Portuguese: “Laboratório Aquarius”
- Portuguese: “Laboratório submarino Aquarius”
- Spanish: “Base Aquarius Reef”
- Swedish: “Aquarius (laboratorium)”
- Swedish: “Aquarius”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Aquarius Reef Base”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.