{{Short description|Island in Miami, Florida, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} thumb|right|300px|Eastern end of Dodge Island showing Port of Miami shipping containers. '''Dodge Island''' is an artificial island near downtown Miami, Florida, United States. The Port of Miami is located on, what was, Dodge, Lummus and Sam Islands, and has berths for both cruise and cargo ships.
The original and much smaller Dodge Island was created during the dredging of Government Cut in the early 1900s.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Chapter 6: The Harbor Pilot |url=http://www.floridata.com/tracks/ray/chap6_theharborpilot.cfm |date=March 1, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623181009/http://www.floridata.com/tracks/ray/chap6_theharborpilot.cfm |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |website=Floridata}}</ref> According to ''The Miami News'', the island went unnamed until 1950 when Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dodge of Wisconsin, friends of Frank Stearns, director of the City of Miami Planning Board, were visiting and asked what the island was called and, "unable to come up with a name of the island ... Stearns gave the parcel of land its present name."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-landmark-name-game/146268118/ "Landmark Name Game"], Miami News, 25 Jul 1973.</ref> The current island was formed by further filling which combined Dodge Island with two other man-made islands, Lummus Island and Sam's Island. Dodge, Lummus, and Sam's Island is now generally known as Port of Miami.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=b_6uVX91tAEC&dq=dodge+island+sam%27s+lummus&pg=PT309 Travel Miami and Miami Beach: illustrated city guide and maps]{{dead link|date=April 2023|fix-attempted=y}}</ref>
==Geography== It was located in Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach.<ref>[https://florida.hometownlocator.com/FL/Miami-Dade/Port-of-Miami.cfm Port of Miami, FL Community Profile]</ref>
==See also== *Port of Miami *Port Boulevard *Port of Miami Tunnel
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