The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.

Clipperton's lagoon is devoid of fish, and contains some deep basins with depths of, including a spot known as Trou-Sans-Fond, or " the bottomless hole ", with acidic water at its base.

On Diego Garcia, the main plantations were located at East Point, the main settlement on the eastern rim of the atoll ; Minni Minni, north of East Point ; and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all located on the lagoon side of the atoll rim.

The continuous portion of the atoll rim stretches from one end to the other, enclosing a lagoon long and up to wide, with a pass opening at the north.

Besides the main island, there are three small islets at the mouth of the lagoon: West Island ( 3. 4 ha / 8. 4 acres ); Middle Island ( 6 ha / 14. 8 acres ); and East Island ( 11. 75 ha / 29 acres ).

These are small lagoons off of the main lagoon, filled with seawater at high tide and dry at low tide.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

Juvenile Hawksbills are quite common in the lagoon and at Barachois Sylvane ( also known as Turtle Cove ) in the southern part of the lagoon.

Nineteenth century tram track remains can be seen in the dried lagoon bed at the island's center and the late 1930s-era lighthouse-shaped day beacon still stands on the western shore at the site of Millersville.

In 1935 it was decided that the lagoon at Kingman Reef was suitable for overnight stops en route from the U. S to New Zealand via Samoa.

For the first few months there were next to no recreation facilities on the island, and the men amused themselves by shooting at sharks that swam into the lagoon.

Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda lies at the narrow mouth of Curonian Lagoon, a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad and separated from the Baltic sea by Curonian Spit, where Kuršių Nerija National Park was established for its remarkable sand dunes.

Since the early 2000s, dredging machines have operated at the Murray Mouth, moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system.

Freshwater can be found in Buada lagoon, and also in some brackish ponds at the escarpment base in Ijuw and Anabar in the northeast.

Six years later, a partially buried corroded chest was found in a lagoon at Palmyra, containing Eleanor Graham's remains.

In 1707 an undersea volcano breached the sea surface, forming the current centre of activity at Nea Kameni in the centre of the lagoon, and eruptions centred on it continue — the twentieth century saw three such, the last in 1950.

New ports were built, including those at Malamocco and Torcello in the Venetian lagoon.

The general layout of the park, designed by Charles Faust, included a large lagoon with a jungle plaza, an African fishing village, an aviary at the entrance of the park and approximately 50, 000 plants were to be included in the landscaping.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The center of Jarvis island is a dried lagoon where deep guano deposits accumulated, which were mined for about 20 years during the nineteenth century.

The reef encloses a lagoon up to deep in its western part.

A relative drop in sea level may leave a lagoon largely dry, while a rise in sea level may let the sea breach or destroy barrier islands, and leave reefs too deep under water to protect the lagoon.

* Barrier reef – a reef separated from a mainland or island shore by a deep channel or lagoon

The lots were all 50 feet wide along the lagoon and 80 feet deep running towards the street.

The Rakaia River in Canterbury, New Zealand has cut a channel 100 metres deep into the surrounding plains ; this river transports sediment to a lagoon located on the river-coast interface.

Its land area totals less than, surrounding a deep central lagoon, in circumference.

The island is surrounded by a lagoon, which often extends more than a hundred metres to the reef, then slopes steeply to deep water.

The lagoon was large and deep, so that a ship with high sides could sail on it, all loaded with an infinity of men and women dressed in fine plumes, golden plaques and crowns .... As soon as those on the raft began to burn incense, they also lit braziers on the shore, so that the smoke hid the light of day.

Rodrigues has nearly continuous fringing reefs bounding an extensive lagoon with deep channels, whereas Mauritius is surrounded by a discontinuous fringing reef and a small barrier reef.

When they became old, Bachué and her Son-Husband decided to go back to the deep of the lagoon.

The lagoon is quite deep but it is full of coral patches.

The lagoon is deep and can accommodate large ships, though the entrance passages are relatively narrow.

In general, the central lagoon is very deep, with depths up to 100 metres.

The noble Venetian families faced huge expenses to show off their richness in suitable palazzos: this contest reveals the citizens ’ pride and the deep bond with the lagoon.

The lagoon is about deep where the glacier snout originally existed.

With the rate at which Vatnajökull is retreating and the lagoon is getting formed, in the near future, it is anticipated that there is likely to be a deep fjord where Vatnajökull is now.

The northern coast of the island faces into the lagoon, while the southern and western sides face the deep waters of the open ocean.

There is a small sand bar around the atoll, awash at high tide, with a small entrance into the flat lagoon with a somewhat deep harbor.

It consists of several large islands ringing a deep lagoon.

It is occupied by rolling hills, deep canyons, a coastal lagoon and beaches adorned with sand dunes and driftwood.