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2025 Map of Royal Palm Hammock

Name: 2025 Topographic Map of Royal Palm Hammock
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2025
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2025

About this map

Royal Palm Hammock serves as the gateway to this intricate network of mangrove islands and tidal waterways within the Ten Thousand Islands region. The landscape is defined by the transition from the upland pinelands and hammocks down into the vast estuarine systems of Blackwater Bay and Pumpkin Bay. Infrastructure is concentrated along the northern edge of the sheet, where Tamiami Trl E provides the primary transit corridor alongside the Tamiami Canal Number G-4.

South of the highway, the environment shifts to a complex maze of named channels and keys, including Shell Key and Buttonwood Island. For navigators and researchers, the map details established routes like the Florida Circumnavigational Paddling Trl and various canoe trails that wind through Gill Rattle Creek and the Whitney River. The presence of the Faka Union Canal on the eastern boundary highlights the engineering efforts to manage water flow in this low-lying coastal terrain.