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The lake name is French for "Lake of the Germans", referring to the early settlers who inhabited that part of Louisiana. [2] St. Charles Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish are part of a region called the German Coast. Lac des Allemands is a shallow lake, with a maximum depth of 10 feet (3.0 m) and an average depth of about 5 feet (1.5 m). [3]
A close up look at the head of a North Atlantic right whale, Koala, off the Florida coast in January 2025. Photos taken under NOAA research permit 26562. An unusual journey
The most famous fossil sites within Louisiana are Creola Bluff at Montgomery Landing Site in Grant Parish, Louisiana [20] and the Cane River Site, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The Montgomery Landing Site was a 500 meters (1,600 ft) long and 14 meters (46 ft) high bluff that was the cutbank on the east side of the Red River .
Lake Borgne [right center] is southeast of Lake Pontchartrain and east of New Orleans, Louisiana. Coastal erosion has transformed Borgne into a lagoon connecting to the Gulf of Mexico. Early 18th-century maps show Borgne as a true lake, largely separated from the gulf by a considerable extent of wetlands that have since disappeared.
Two North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the Gulf Coast of Alabama recently in a rare encounter less than a mile away from the Gulf Shore of Alabama. North Atlantic right whales are ...
An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
Stranded the following day with pieces of net found in its mouth. Male. 45 ft long. [40] 2014 December 8 Australia Ardrossan, South Australia: 8 7 1 One whale showed possible evidence of propeller wounds, all were female. [41] Another was found distant from the group in 1.5 m water near Port Vincent and was successfully shepherded out to sea ...