Islandia is an unincorporated community and former city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

In the 2010 Primary Election, the Miami-Dade County Commission was empowered via a charter amendment to abolish Islandia.

On December 6, 2011, Miami-Dade County Commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance to abolish the city, with final action to be taken after a public hearing.

[5][6] Islandia, particularly Elliott Key, was originally fished by the Native American Tequesta people.

By the mid-1800s, a group of Bahamians had made their way to the key, where they unsuccessfully tried farming on an island with a base of coral rock.

However, the number of residents dwindled over time due to the lack of electricity, poor farming, and the relatively long distance from the mainland.

A grassroots opposition of fishermen, gardeners, and elected state leaders opposed the plan, and sought to include the islands in the national park system.

Islandia mayor Luther Brooks and his small city council fought back, and at one point obtained a large bulldozer and cleared a 125-foot (38 m) wide swath down the center of Elliott Key as the beginning of the proposed six-lane Elliott Key Boulevard.

What remains today of the failed Elliott Key Boulevard is an 8-foot (2.4 m) wide nature trail covered by a tree canopy that is mockingly referred to as "Spite Highway.

"[7] By 1990, exasperated by decades of the city not filing papers or following municipal procedures, the state of Florida ruled all of Islandia's elections illegal on the grounds that only land owners, as opposed to all residents, had been permitted to vote, in violation of voting-rights laws.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 66.4 square miles (172 km2).