The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin.

To swim to the other island, Sami had to cross a shark infested lagoon.

Unfortunately though, a young calf was unlucky enough to get stuck in the mud when visiting the lagoon recently.

Unfortunately though, a young calf was unlucky enough to get stuck in the mud when visiting the lagoon recently.

Over the last few years several resorts have been built on motu (small islands, from Tahitian) surrounding the lagoon.

The major settlement, Vaitape, is on the western side of the main island, opposite the main channel into the lagoon.

Areas of the NATURA Network 2000 The river Nestos delta and Keramoti lagoon (Α11500010) and Lakes and lagoons of Thrace (A11300009)

Those that survived the longest were in the more rugged regions, such as Florence or Venice, which was protected by its lagoon.

The lagoon of Khniss used to have a particularly rich marine biodiversity that until a recent past sustained pretty well the livelihood of local fishermen families.

SOPAC claims it could be driven out of business by Blue Lagoon, which has won a five year contract to supply one of France's largest supermarket chains.

The pollution due to urban and industrial waste waters further strangled the environment and is most probably the main reason for the depletion of the marine biodiversity of the lagoon.

Senegal intends to set up sanitation networks in all secondary towns by 2010, including wastewater recycling and lagoon stations for the re use of processed water in agriculture and construction.

Dramatic Elephant rescue in Zambia The Kapani Lagoon is a source of drinking water for the animals of the area, as well as the place to go for a relieving mud bath.

The lagoon at Gardner looked sufficiently deep and certainly large enough so that a seaplane or even an airboat could have landed or takenoff in any direction with little if any difficulty.

Some elders have referred to the region as Al Maklouba in a reference to an old myth saying the region had known a major earthquake that critically changed the landscape in the lagoon.

From the Norman Carr Safari in Zambia The Kapani Lagoon is a source of drinking water for the animals of the area, as well as the place to go for a relieving mud bath.

First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallards who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston.

These new research university institutes include the Indian River Lagoon Research Institute, Human Centered Design Institute, Institute for Energy Systems, Institute for Marine Research, Institute for Materials Science Nanotechnology and Institute for Research on Global Climate Change.

SOPAC has objected to a decision by the territorial Government to grant Blue Lagoon the same tax breaks it has benefited from for 20 years on the grounds that the market is too small for two producers.

The aquaculture industry, which mainly farms shrimp for export, has been ruffled by a dispute between the two largest producers, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), which is subsidized by the French Government and the privately owned Blue Lagoon.

Jordan further states that additional damage is likely to have been caused by solid wastes in plastic bags, deposited directly into the lagoon or blown by the wind from the beach, and by the trampling of the coral reef by refugees.

However, south of Jeddah in the Shoiaba area the water from the lagoon may cover the adjoining sabkhas as far as , whereas, north of Jeddah in the Al Kharrar area the sabkhas are covered by a thin sheet of water as far as .

Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of the ocean and the stories it can tell.

Commenting on the moment when Asiatic cholera kills the great and troubled writer Gustav von Aschenbach, a brilliant Asian student pointed out that Mann related the disease to the pestilence of the Ganges delta, which traversed China and Afghanistan, Persia and Astrakhan, and even Moscow, before reaching Europe through the city of the lagoon.

And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around and then back onto the lagoon.