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The term "the sudd" has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat. The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands and the largest freshwater wetland in the Nile Basin. For many centuries the swamp, and especially its thicket of vegetation, proved an impenetrable barrier to navigation along the Nile.
The Zhemchug Canyon is located in the middle of the Bering Sea, between Siberia and Alaska. It has a vertical relief of 8,530 feet or 2,600 meters dropping from the shallow shelf of the Bering Sea to the depths of the Aleutian Basin [1] and a length of 99 miles (160 kilometers).
A swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin. The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the ...
Of the total 440,000 km 2 (170,000 sq mi) tropical peat swamp, about 210,000 km 2 (81,000 sq mi) are located in Indonesia (Page, 2001; Wahyunto, 2006). The Vasyugan Swamp is a large swamp in the western Siberia area of the Russian Federation. This is one of the largest swamps in the world, covering an area larger than Switzerland.
The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level. These are: Issyk-Kul, Crater Lake, Quesnel, Sarez, Toba, Tahoe, Kivu, Nahuel Huapi, Van and Poso.
The difference in elevation of the highest cave entrance (Arbaika) and its deepest explored point is 2,199 ± 20 metres (7,215 ± 66 ft). [2] It became the deepest known cave in the world in 2003 when the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,910 m (6,270 ft).
Boesmansgat (or Bushmansgat), also known in English as "Bushman's Hole", is a deep submerged freshwater cave (or sinkhole) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which has been dived to a depth of 282.6 metres (927 ft). Boesmansgat was believed to have first been explored by amateur diver Mike Rathbourne, in 1977.
An illustrated children's book, Deep in the Swamp by Donna M. Bateman (2007), describes the plant and animals of the Okefenokee Swamp. [25] 3AM at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee is a title of one of the songs recorded by the band Tangerine Dream on their 1976 album Stratosfear.