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unusual facts about marshlands



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Bikoro Territory

The lake lies at the center of the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe landscape, the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, a vast area of forest and permanent or seasonal lakes and marshlands that has great environmental and economic value.

Clearfield, Utah

The Great Salt Lake is separated from Clearfield City by marshlands, mudflats and the cities in between.

Geography of Kent

the low lying London Clay marshlands along the Thames/Medway estuaries and along the North Kent coast;

Gulf of Gökova

Eucalyptus trees bordering the road were planted in 1936 to dry marshlands and help combat malaria.

Lucius E. Pinkham

While President of the Board of Health, he developed the idea of dredging the marshlands of Waikīkī via a two-mile long drainage canal.

Luddington, North Lincolnshire

Climate change during the Little Ice Age saw the advance of marshlands, the dying of woodlands (which became bog oak) and the reduction of pasture.

Parkgate, Cheshire

The silting of the Dee has been accelerated by the deliberate introduction of the invasive colonising grass Spartina anglica in Connah's Quay in 1928, resulting in the growth of extensive marshlands.

Sodenbrunnen

A sodenbrunnen is a sod cistern used in the saltwater marshlands of Northern Germany from the early first millennium AD to the Middle Ages to collect rain water for drinking.

Terrington St Clement

It is situated in the drained marshlands to the south of The Wash, 7 miles west of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and 5 miles east of Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, on the old route of the A17 trunk road.

Veta La Palma

Isla Mayor, as the nerve centre of the marshlands on the Guadalquivir, has seen a long process of transformation over time due to both the natural evolution caused by silting and the effects of human activity.


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