At what time the Via Latina was stretched to Casilinum is doubtful ( it is quite possible that it was done when Capua fell under Roman supremacy, i. e. before the construction of the Via Appia ); it afforded a route only 10 km ( 6 mi ) longer, and the difficulties with its construction were much less ; it also avoided the troublesome journey through the Pontine Marshes.

* Halvergate Marshes, also RSPB reserve

It is also part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The Marshes are also known as ' The Mere of Dead Faces '; they are described in The Passage of the Marshes in The Two Towers as " dreary and wearisome.

Kozler also owned a plot of land in the Ljubljana Marshes known as Kozler's Thicket ().

A smaller very marshy lake called Mweru Wantipa ( also known as the Mweru Marshes ) lies about 50 km to its east, and north of the Kalungwishi.

Water Margin ( known in Chinese as Shuihu Zhuan, sometimes abbreviated to Shuihu ), also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is a 14th century novel and one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Rory Stewart described the Marsh Arabs and his experiences as deputy governor in the Maysan province ( 2003 – 2004 ) in his 2006 book, Prince of the Marshes ( also published under the title Occupational Hazards ).

In addition there is also an SSSI at Amble Marshes on the River Amble which flows into the Camel Estuary between Wadebridge and Rock.

His sister, Mercy Otis Warren, also born next to the Great Marshes, became a political activist, one of the first women writers in the country, and a historian of note.

There are also many other goblinoid-breeds in the Warhammer World, like the Swamp Orcs and Marsh Goblins in the Marshes of Madness and Hill Goblins and Kobolds in the wildernesses of the Badlands.

The Macquarie Marshes are also listed on the Register of the National Estate, the Register of the National Trust of Australia, and the Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia.

It is also protected as part of the ' Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes ' Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ) and Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).

The same phenomenon is reported to be present also in the Florida everglades and in the Pripyat Marshes ( Soviet Union ) as well.

This area, now known as the Napa-Sonoma Marshes State Wildlife Area, was also used by U. S. Navy Reserve unit PBRs ( Patrol Boat, River ) up until 1995, when Mare Island was scheduled for Base Closure.

The Pinsk Marshes (), also known as the Pripyat or Pripet Marshes () and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest, Belarus ( west ) to Mogilev ( northeast ) and Kiev ( southeast ).

The Hamerstroms also conducted a decades-long study of the northern harrier, that resulted in Harrier: Hawk of the Marshes, published in 1986 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, and documented the relationship of the breeding success of harriers and their cyclical food supply.

Terracina occupied a position of notable strategic importance: it is located in fact at the point where the Volscian Hills ( an extension of the Lepini Mountains ) reach the coast, leaving no space for passage between them and the sea, in a site commanding the Pontine Marshes ( urbs prona in paludes, " a city flat in the marshes ", as Livy called it ) and also possessing a small harbour.

The ambitious Sixtus V also made unsuccessful attempts at reclamation of the area, and died of malaria after a visit to the Pontine Marshes.

* Marshes separated from the surrounding water by a dike and subsequently drained.

Dugdale, writing his book The History of Imbanking and Drayning of divers Fenns and Marshes in 1662, which was based on personal observations he made during a trip to the Fens in May 1657, and the records of the Fens Office, most of which were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, thought it was the least of the rivers he had seen, and recorded that it " serveth almost to none other use, but to carry away so much of its own water, with the rill descending from Burne, as can be kept between two defensible banks.

Marshes ( and other wetlands ) are able to absorb water during periods of heavy rainfall and slowly release it into waterways and therefore reduce the magnitude of flooding.

A USAID report noted that while some Maʻdān had chosen to return to their traditional activities in the marshes, especially the Hammar Marshes, within a short time of reflooding, they were without clean drinking water, sanitation, health care or education facilities.

Marshes occur where standing water is present for most of the year.

Such areas are still considered to be among the finest landscape in the county, with several such places being made into sanctuaries for the local wildlife, most recently ‘ Carlton Marshes ’, a reasonable sized lake / pond dedicated to the preservation of many water creatures and a great variety of birds.

Marshes were extensive, with tracts of shallow water rich in fish.

The water, a tributary of the River Tweed, is known also as the River Ettrick, often locally known as Wild Ettrick ( though that title refers more correctly to the Ettrick Forest and the Ettrick Valley ), and it flows through the village, and its flood plain, the Ettrick Marshes.

Carlton Marshes nature reserve, siutated on the marshes between the river and the built up area, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and the site of rare water plants such as bladderwort and water soldier as well as dragonfly populations.

The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pripet Marshes.

The ancestors of modern Russians are the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes.

Besides numerous roads and bridges, he sweetened the city air by financing the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes.

He is best remembered in connection with the establishment of the Museum of the Vatican, begun at his suggestion of his predecessor and with an impractical and expensive attempt to drain the Pontine Marshes, something later successfully achieved in the 1930s by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

In its northern section both banks of the Elbe are characterised by flat, very fertile marshlands ( Elbe Marshes ), former flood plains of the Elbe now diked.

It is by some fixed some 5 km southeast of the modern village of Cisterna di Latina just before the Via Appia enters the Pontine Marshes, at a point where the modern road to Ninfa and Norba diverges to the northeast, where a few ruins still exist ( Grotte di Nottola ), 53 km from Rome.

This and the surrounding Halvergate Marshes are specially protected, and the majority of the area is now owned by conservation organisations, principally the RSPB.

Ant Broads & Marshes NNR is a National Nature Reserve in Norfolk, England established by English Nature.

Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve ( NNR ) is maintained by English Nature in Norfolk, England, within The Broads National Park.

The nature reserve is maintained by English Nature and is part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ).

Ludham – Potter Heigham Marshes NNR is a National Nature Reserve established and owned by English Nature in Norfolk, England.

It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes, c. 1871-1875, by Martin Johnson Heade

Lanier's poem " The Marshes of Glynn " is the inspiration for a cantata by the same name that was created by the modern English composer Andrew Downes to celebrate the Royal Opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, England, in 1986.

" Frodo is mesmerized by the candle-like lights that appear to float over the Marshes ( called by Gollum " candles of corpses "); those who are hypnotised by these lights, and who therefore try to touch the bodies, are likely to drown in the waters and join the dead.

Tollesbury Wick Marshes is a nature reserve just east of Tolleshunt run by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

* The creation of a new wetland nature reserve in the Thames Marshes by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ), the Land Restoration Trust, Basildon District Council and Veolia.

* By the 14th century, much of the Walland and Denge Marshes had been reclaimed by " innings ", the process of throwing up an embankment around the sea-marsh and using the low-tide to let it run dry by means of one-way drains set into the new seawall, running off into a network of dykes called locally " sewers "

The eastern end of the High Weald, the English Channel coast, is marked in the centre by the high sandstone cliffs from Hastings to Pett Level ; and by former sea cliffs now fronted by the Pevensey and Romney Marshes on either side.