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Oder Lagoon - Landsat satellite photo (circa 2000) The German fishing village of Altwarp on the Lagoon Szczecin Lagoon, view from Polish island of Karsibór Szczecin Lagoon (Polish: Zalew Szczeciński, German: Stettiner Haff), also known as Oder Lagoon (German: Oderhaff), and Pomeranian Lagoon (German: Pommersches Haff), is a lagoon in the Oder estuary, shared by Germany and Poland.
The lagoon is a mouth of a few branches of the Vistula River, notably Nogat and Szkarpawa, and of the Pregolya River.. The lagoon is split between Poland (including the localities of Elbląg, Tolkmicko, Frombork, and Krynica Morska) and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast (including the localities of Kaliningrad, Baltiysk, and Primorsk).
A 1552 map by Sebastian Münster showing the Pinsk Marshes (Sarmatica palus) next to Pinsk. The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija baloty), the Polesie Marshes, and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands in Polesia, along ...
The water installations were made by Ottomar von Wettner, with the water systems designed by Adam Wybe. [10] The water tanks were located on the rooftop of the Main Town Hall and Artus Court. [11] Until the second half of the nineteenth-century, when the underground water system was modernized, the fountain was only operational a few days of ...
The building is shaped like a pyramid with a height of 15.9 metres (52 ft) and is loosely inspired by the architecture of ancient Egypt. The family members buried there were mummified. In 1945, the mausoleum was severely damaged by soldiers of the Red Army. [2]
The idea of constructing the canal dates back to 1577 when the King of Poland, Stephen Báthory, proposed a plan to build it on the Vistula Spit in connection with the Danzig Rebellion (1575–1577). He sent Castellan of Wiślica Mikołaj Firlej and Royal Chancellor Piotr Kłoczowski to the region and the village of Skowronki was selected as ...
The region is situated between the High Tatras and the Dunajec River in the north, the springs of the Váh River in the west, the Slovenské rudohorie Mountains (Slovak Ore Mountains) and Hnilec River in the south, and a line running from the town of Stará Ľubovňa, via the Branisko mountain (under which lies the 4,822 m long Branisko Tunnel, currently the longest in Slovakia), to the town ...
A food pyramid is a representation of the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups. [2] The first pyramid was published in Sweden in 1974. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The 1992 pyramid introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was called the "Food Guide Pyramid" or "Eating Right Pyramid".