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2015 Map of Flamingo

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Flamingo
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

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Everglades National Park dominates this coastal survey, where the southern tip of the Florida peninsula meets the Atlantic Ocean and Florida Bay. The small settlement of Flamingo serves as the focal point for navigation and land access, situated at the termination of the Flamingo Lodge Hwy. This area represents a complex aquatic landscape of mangrove-lined passages and open water, including Whitewater Bay and the Snake Bight Channel.

Evidence of human efforts to manage or navigate this wilderness appears in the Homestead Canal and the Wilderness Waterway, which snakes through the northern reaches near the Joe River. Distinctive coastal features like Cape Sable and Bear Lake Mound provide topographic variation in a region otherwise defined by expansive flats and prairies like Roberts Prairie. Islands such as Joe Kemp Key and Bradley Key dot the shallows, marking the transition from the mainland to the open bay.