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  • Thumbnail for Hippocampus (mythology)
    replenish the water table, but imagined the waters of the sea oozing back landwards through vast caverns and aquifers, rising replenished and freshened in...
    14 KB (1,657 words) - 15:51, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Spezia
    dialect prione, where public announcements were once read out. Walking landwards from the sea it is possible to see partly hidden, but still evident, traces...
    18 KB (1,772 words) - 05:17, 31 May 2024
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    S2CID 130330110. (abstract) Fortey, Richard (September 1999) [1997]. "Landwards, Humanity". Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of...
    150 KB (16,274 words) - 00:10, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nithing pole
    turn on king Eric and queen Gunnhilda. (Here he turned the horse's head landwards.) This curse I turn also on the guardian-spirits who dwell in this land...
    6 KB (684 words) - 04:25, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
    protocol has effectively moved the scope of the original London convention landwards, relating it to the policy and management issues of land as well as sea...
    17 KB (1,516 words) - 18:13, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesil Beach
    area has revealed that it is in fact a barrier beach which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with the Isle of Portland and giving the appearance...
    26 KB (2,997 words) - 21:41, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Le Grau-du-Roi
    beach (Plage de Rive Gauche), Port-Camargue and L'Espiguette. Immediately landwards are the large shallow étangs, saline marshes, which separate it from Aigues...
    15 KB (1,343 words) - 12:16, 27 September 2023
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    Taylor & Francis. p. 236. ISBN 9780203890813. Retrieved May 29, 2013. Landwards, Volumes 55-58. Institution of Agricultural Engineers. 2000. p. 49. Sam...
    9 KB (937 words) - 19:26, 12 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rio Castle
    main fort by stone bridges. It has two gates, the central one, facing landwards, and the sea gate. In 1533, it was briefly captured by the Genoese under...
    4 KB (325 words) - 14:02, 2 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Poland
    deposition has formed cliffs, dunes, and spits, many of which have migrated landwards to close off former lagoons, such as Łebsko Lake in Słowiński National...
    47 KB (4,892 words) - 11:40, 26 May 2024
  • backshore The part of a seashore lying inland from the mean high water line, landwards of the foreshore, from which it is often delineated by the presence of...
    261 KB (26,722 words) - 03:48, 1 June 2024
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    corals from near shore reefs in their paths, and carry all this detritus landwards in a rolling wave of material that is deposited onshore, above highest...
    32 KB (3,510 words) - 20:52, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for East Siberian Sea
    Kolyma River is uniform, with low and slowly varying slopes. It extends landwards to the marshy tundra filled with numerous small lakes. In contrast, the...
    22 KB (2,756 words) - 00:07, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for East Coast Parkway
    ample headroom for ferries to use the channel. The new highway would turn landwards to South Quay and then to the vacant piece of land past the Singapore...
    14 KB (1,487 words) - 15:38, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salt marsh
    of the smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora dominate, then heading landwards, zones of the salt hay, Spartina patens, black rush, Juncus gerardii and...
    84 KB (10,288 words) - 20:24, 28 May 2024
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    of Buer at the city of Melle in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It is located landwards at the Wiehen hills in Hunte valley and was historically known as "Metdisdorphe"...
    4 KB (356 words) - 15:55, 28 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis)
    read —flood waters rise. The storm has come, the seas run wild and skip Landwards to squash big jetties there. Most people have a cold, their noses drip...
    15 KB (1,756 words) - 04:59, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walls of Dubrovnik
    constructed around a Late Antique castle by the sea, which stretched landwards a bit more than it does today. It was constructed on the site of the Pre-Romanesque...
    51 KB (5,674 words) - 17:21, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clastic wedge
    geological boundary. They begin at the mountain front, thicken considerably landwards of it to a peak depth, and progressively thin with increasing distance...
    5 KB (548 words) - 13:27, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Llandudno Pier
    1878, when the landing stage under the pier sustained light damage. The landwards extension to the same design, still in deep water and also supported on...
    15 KB (1,607 words) - 05:47, 6 September 2023
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