The island is 87 % peat bog.

This process is slow enough that in many cases the bog grows rapidly and fixes more carbon from the atmosphere than is released.

The Gundestrup Cauldron, which was deposited in a bog in Himmerland in the 2nd or 1st century BC, shows that there was some sort of contact with southeastern Europe, but it is uncertain if this contact can be associated with the Cimbrian expedition.

Since 1996 the Lake Ladoga Challenge is an annual competition for 4x4 vehicles and ATVs that travels through over 1200 kilometers of the mud, swamp and bog that surround Lake Ladoga.

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and ( in jest ) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.

Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss ; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.

Lindow Moss () is a peat bog in Mobberley, Cheshire, which has been used as common land since the medieval period.

Lindow Moss is a lowland raised mire ; this type of peat bog often produces the best preserved bog bodies, allowing more detailed analysis.

According to Brothwell, it is one of the most complex examples of " overkill " in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was " extravagant " for a straightforward murder.

Archaeologists John Hodgson and Mark Brennand suggest that bog bodies may have been related to religious practice, although there is division in the academic community over this issue and in the case of Lindow Man, whether the killing was murder or ritualistic is still debated.

Such a find is known as a bog body.

It is likely that the body had shrunk in the bog.

* Earliest surviving ski is left in a peat bog at Hoting, Sweden, about this time.

Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to " native " status in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years.

The western shore however is characterised by broad tundra lowlands that are an extension of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the vegetation is mostly muskeg bog.

Limonite is named from the Greek word for meadow ( λειμών ), in allusion to its occurrence as bog iron ore in meadows and marshes.

The majority of the plateau is at an elevation of 1500 metres ( 5000 ft ), where inverted treelines in valley bottoms give rise to grasslands, with bog and fen communities of Sphagnum and Empodisma in watercourses.

Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bogland, but muskeg is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska, while ' bog ' is common elsewhere.

Inland, and mostly south of the river, older river channels, which date back to the end of the ice age, and no longer have flowing water, have sometimes filled with a different wetland type, peat bog.

It is composed mainly of wetland vegetation: principally bog plants including mosses, sedges and shrubs.

For more information on this process, refer to wetland in general and bog in particular.

For more on biological communities, see wetland, bog or fen.

* Sifton Bog, which is a Class 2 wetland within the City of London, is considered the most southerly intact bog in Canada.

The genus members are commonly called bog clubmosses, describing their wetland habitat.

These nature reserves cover the diversity of Yorkshire ’ s landscape, from woodland to grassland, wetland, moorland, fen, bog and coast.

* Stafford Garden-sycamore trees ( planted circa 1920s ), with wooden boardwalk and wetland bog garden.

The area is not entirely a glade, but a bog or wetland covered with all sorts of decaying vegetation.

It lies in a shallow basin on the limestone plateau beneath Cefn Bryn, and consists of an acidic pond, heath and bog, which is important for aquatic plants, amphibians, dragonflies ( including Southern Damselfly ) and wetland birds.

The revised alignment presented a considerable problem: the crossing of Chat Moss, an apparently bottomless peat bog, which Stephenson eventually overcame by unusual means, effectively floating the line across it.

Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires.

For centuries the peat from the bog was used as fuel, and it continued to be extracted until the 1980s, by which time the process had been mechanised.

Similarly, green deposits were found in the hair, originally thought to be a copper-based pigment used for decoration, however it was later found to be the result of a reaction between the keratin in the hair and the acid of the peat bog.

In addition wooden spears and tools were made in an area now covered in peat bog in the South East.

The first primitive ski was found in a peat bog in Hoting, Sweden which dates back to 2500 or 4500 B. C.

He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body.

On May 6, 1950, Viggo and Emil Højgaard from the small village of Tollund were cutting mud to find peat for their stove in the Bjældskovdal peat bog, west of Silkeborg, Denmark.

Scientists know that this moss was formed in Danish peat bogs in the early Iron Age, therefore, the body was suspected to have been placed in the bog more than 2, 000 years ago during the early Iron Age.

Such " bog butter " would develop a strong flavor as it aged, but remain edible, in large part because of the unique cool, airless, antiseptic and acidic environment of a peat bog.

Some of the best-known remains from the period include the " peat bog corpses ", among them the well-preserved bodies of two people deliberately strangled: Tollund Man and Haraldskær Woman.

There are some Neolithic paths preserved in the peat of the bog formerly comprising most of the area, but none of the known paths match the lines of the zodiac features.

Landscapes covered in peat also have specific kinds of plants, particularly Sphagnum moss, ericaceous shrubs, and sedges ( see bog for more information on this aspect of peat ).

During the Dark Ages, peat bogs were the primary source of bog iron, used to create the swords and armour of the Vikings.