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  2. Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge was formed by three land transfers from the U.S. Army's Fort Devens military installation, and a recent purchase of private land in Harvard. Two of the transfers from the Army (May 1974 and February 1988) formed the original 711-acre (2.88 km 2 ) portion of the Refuge located south of Massachusetts Route 2 .

  3. Oxbow lake - Wikipedia

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    This picture of the Nowitna River in Alaska shows two oxbow lakes – a short one at the bottom of the picture and a longer, more curved one at the middle-right. The picture also shows that a third oxbow lake is probably in the making: the isthmus or bank in the centre of the most prominent meander is very narrow – much narrower than the width of the river; eventually, the two sections of ...

  4. Kanwar Lake Bird Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Kanwar jheel, as it is locally called, is located 22 km north-west of Begusarai Town in Manjhaul. It is a residual oxbow lake, formed due to meandering of Burhi Gandak [6] river, a tributary of Ganga, in the geological past. [7] It covers 2,620 hectares of the Indo-Gangetic plains in the northern Bihar State.

  5. Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is a 7,055 acre (28.6km 2) [1] wildlife refuge located 5 miles south-east of Dardanelle, Arkansas. The Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is bounded on one side by the Arkansas River and on its other sides by an oxbow lake that was formerly the main channel of the Arkansas.

  6. Resaca de la Palma State Park - Wikipedia

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    The property was acquired by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1977 and was opened to the public in December 2008. [2] A resaca is a type of oxbow lake that can be found in Texas, [3] and is a former channels of the Rio Grande. It is naturally cut off from the river, having no inlet or outlet.

  7. List of lakes of Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes ...

  8. Saman Bird Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Saman Bird Sanctuary is centred around a seasonal, rain-fed oxbow lake on flat ground. Its northern boundary is the Kishni-Karhal road, and its western boundary is defined by the border between the villages of Saman and Sauj.

  9. Horseshoe Lake (Alexander County, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Horseshoe Lake is a 2,007 acres (812 ha) natural oxbow lake in Alexander County, Illinois. [1] It is the site of Illinois's Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a state park 10,645 acres (43 km 2) in size. It has a 20 miles (32 km) shoreline and a depth of 4 ft (1.2 m), with a maximum depth of 5–6 feet (1.5–1.8 m).