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2 unusual facts about Lagoon


Loango National Park

It protects diverse coastal habitat, including part of the 220 km² Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park.

Situated between the Nkomi and Ndogo Lagoons, Loango National Park is the true jewel of Africa's western coast.


Acamarachi

This is most likely the second highest crater lake in the world, and also the third highest lake of any kind in South America, behind the crater lake of Ojos del Salado and the small lagoon in the col between Tres Cruces Sur and Tres Cruces Norte.

Bryher, Isles of Scilly

It is separated from the sea by a storm beach and small dune system, and is the only natural brackish lagoon on Scilly with plants such as Saltmarsh Rush (Juncus gerardii) and Beaked Tasselweed (Ruppia maritima).

Bud Westmore

For his involvement in Creature from the Black Lagoon he assisted the designer of the Gill-man, Disney animator Millicent Patrick, though her role was deliberately downplayed and for half a century, Westmore would receive sole credit for the creature's conception.

Camp El Tesoro

Campers swam in Shannah’s Lagoon, a part of Fall Creek, until the first swimming pool was built in 1938.

Charles Melville Scammon

He was the first to hunt the gray whales of both Laguna Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio Lagoon, the former once being called "Scammon's Lagoon" after him.

Chignik Lagoon, Alaska

In 2009 the Marines of 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, began work on an inter-village road system linking Chignik Lake to Chignik Lagoon.

Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta

The marsh's large lagoon is connected to the Caribbean Sea via a narrow strait (the La Barra channel) located between the town of Pueblo Viejo and the city of Ciénaga.

Claise Brook

"One mile up the river from the last point is a small creek of fresh water, issuing from an extensive lagoon clothed with arborescent species of Metrosideros of great beauty. The banks are covered with the most interesting plants, amongst which I observed two species of Calytris, a species of Acacia with a scolopendrous-stem, and several Papilionaceous plants. The Angophoras on the flats are gigantic."

Coral reef protection

Inhabitants of Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, have followed a generations-old practice of restricting fishing in six areas of their reef lagoon.

Crocodilaemus

The depositional environment in Cerin at the time is thought to have been the bottom of a lagoon that was enclosed by an emergent reef complex, evidence of the shallow tropical sea that covered much of western Europe during the Jurassic period.

Daniel K. Ludwig

In 1954, on a trip to Baja California Sur, Ludwig founded Exportadora de Sal, SA, which became the "Largest Salt Company in the World", at the Guerrero Negro Lagoon.

Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter features the Doubloon Lagoon 225,000 gallon swimming pool which has a sea-serpent themed water slide named Scales that is jockeyed by King Neptune.

Dolphin Cove Jamaica

The company operates three facilities on the island: Ocho Rios, Montego Bay, and Lucea, which is claimed to be the largest natural dolphin lagoon in the world.

Fitzgerald River

The area is a drought refuge for the Chestnut Teal and is a good example of a naturally saline river with an undisturbed coastal lagoon.

Goleta Slough State Marine Conservation Area

The scenic University of California, Santa Barbara is a coastal attraction of its own, featuring miles of sandy beaches, a semi-enclosed lagoon and the school’s world-class Marine Science Institute.

Guerrero Negro

It was during this era that Captain Charles Melville Scammon discovered a prolific gray whale breeding lagoon which became a choice hunting ground for American and European whalers.

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Route 182 (Beach Boulevard) runs east-west along the shore front, while Route 180 (Fort Morgan Road) runs parallel to it, north of Little Lagoon.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra

Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts in the city of Accra, Ghana and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

John Busby

In June 1825 Busby made an interesting report on the state of the water-supply of Sydney, and suggested that a supply could be drawn from "the large lagoon in the vicinity of the paper mill" to a reservoir in Hyde Park from which it would be distributed throughout the city by pipes.

Jurassic Park: The Game

When that doesn't seem to work, she releases the park's captive Tylosaurus into the lagoon, despite Gerry's pleading.

Lagoon Secondary School, Lagos

Lagoon School is a private all-girls secondary school located in the Lekki area of Lagos, Nigeria.

Laguna de Manialtepec

The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Laguna de Términos

Laguna de Términos (Términos Lagoon) is made up of a series of rich, sediment-laden lagoons and tidal estuaries connected by two channels to the Bay of Campeche in the southern part of Gulf of Mexico, in Carmen Municipality in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Campeche.

Lavinia exilicauda

With the highest temperature tolerance among the native fish of the Central Valley, they can be found in both warm and cool water; they also have considerable salt tolerance, for instance occurring in Suisun Marsh (7-8 ppt salinity), and Salinas River lagoon (9 ppt).

Le baruffe chiozzotte

It deals with the comic struggles between two groups of fishermen in the lagoon-mouth village of Chioggia brought on by the love affairs of the younger generation.

Little Waterhouse Lake

Little Waterhouse Lake is a freshwater coastal lagoon in the Waterhouse Conservation Area of north-eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Lorenzo Ochoa Salas

He coordinated and directed six projects of archaeological investigation in the northwestern low territories of the Mayan area, in the Candlemas river basin, in the irrigation system of San Nicolas Atecoxco, Hidalgo, in the caves with wood boxes of Tenosique, Tabasco, and in the river basin and lagoon at Tamiahua, Veracruz.

Mañagaha

Mañagaha is a small islet which lies off the west coast of Saipan within its lagoon.

Manihiki

The island is renowned for its black pearls and there are pearl farms dotted around the lagoon.

Mary Gilmore and the history of Wagga Wagga

Pregan Island, a grassy space between the lagoon and the river, was reserved for the 'guriban', or bush-stone Curlew.

Miramas

It is the second-largest commune in metropolitan Ouest-Provence and is located at the north end of the Étang de Berre lagoon, adjacent to and northeast of the city of Istres.

MOSE Project

Important activities are also underway to redress pollution in the industrial area of Porto Marghera, at the edge of the central lagoon.

The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile gates installed at the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets that are able to temporarily isolate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea during high tides.

No Te Pido Flores

The first music video was shot in the Guatavita lagoon (to 16 km from Bogotá) this lagoon was the same that gave rise to the famous leyendo El Dorado.

Puttalam

The history of Puttalam dates back to the arrival of Prince Vijaya, nearly 2500 years ago, when his vessel washed ashore to "Thambapani" which is located north side of puttalam lagoon.

Second Siege of Missolonghi

The Ottoman army arrived before Missolonghi and began the siege on 20 September with a bombardment of Aitoliko, an island which controlled the seaways of the Missolonghi lagoon.

Serge Dedina

He also initiated an international campaign that successfully stopped the Mitsubishi Corporation from destroying San Ignacio Lagoon—the world’s last undeveloped gray whale lagoon.

Smith's Parish

It is located in the northeast of the main island, at the southern end of Harrington Sound, the large lagoon close to the main island's northeastern tip.

Stagno di Cagliari

The Stagno di Santa Gilla or Stagno di Cagliari (literally ‘Pool of Cagliari’) is a coastal lagoon at the mouths of the rivers Cixerri and Mannu near Cagliari, on the Golfo degli Angeli in southern Sardinia, Italy.

Stansbury Park, Utah

Sewer service is provided by a lagoon complex northwest of the community (north of Utah State Route 138).

Strait of Baltiysk

The strait is the shipping connection from the open sea to the important Russian ports of Baltiysk and Kaliningrad in the northeastern lagoon, as well as to the Polish ports of Elbląg, Braniewo, Tolkmicko, Frombork, Sztutowo, Krynica Morska, and Nowa Pasłęka in the southeastern lagoon.

Suite of Old American Dances

Among the "productions" Bennett refers to is the 1939 New York World's Fair for which he composed some 90 minutes of concert band music for the nightly "Lagoon of Nations" spectacles.

The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon

The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon (originally named Swamp Critters) is an American children's television series created by Bobby Goldsboro.


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