Dog Key Island
Nickname: Isle of Caprice | |
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The Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands and associated tidal inlets in 2007, with the sunken Isle of Caprice marked | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Gulf of Mexico |
| Coordinates | 30°14′29″N 88°51′10″W / 30.2415°N 88.8529°W |
| Archipelago | Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands |
| Administration | |
United States | |
| State | Mississippi |
Dog Key Island (also known as the Isle of Caprice) is a former barrier island on the Gulf Coast of the United States, between Ship Island and Horn Island among the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands, and off Biloxi, Mississippi. It has been reported as an island occasionally — in the mid-19th century and the early 20th — while at other times it was submerged. As of 2011 it was a few feet underwater, and NOAA has marked two nautical passes, "Little Dog Keys" and "Dog Keys", next to it.