Clermont Uplands

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The Clermont Uplands are the northernmost part of the Lake Wales Ridge which is the longest of the Florida peninsula ridges. It acts as a divide separating the Lake Apopka, Kissimmee and Palatlakaha drainage basins
The Clermont Uplands are separated from the rest of the Lake Wales Ridge by a valley which is bounded by an escarpment 50 to 100 feet high on the highlands southeast overlooking a valley/plain between the Green Swamp, Lake Speer, John's Lake and Lake Apopka. Just below the escarpment in the valley is a chain of lakes some of which are connected by canals. A similar chain of smaller lakes defines a northwest escarpment 50-75 feet high. The northeast edge is defined by another escarpment 25-100 feet high abutting the plain Lake Apopka is in.
The western extent is bounded by the Clermont Chain of Lakes.
It contains the highest elevation of the Florida peninsula
Sugarloaf Mountain at 312 Feet/ 95 Meters.
It's name is mentioned in one USGS publication pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5052/
as a region of distinctive lakes named that it's centered around Clermont.
The area is unusually devoid of sinkholes of small size it instead has larger sinkholes that often have lakes partially filling them.