Previously inhabited, the low-lying island is now a successful Grey Seal breeding colony.

The Morini inhabited the low-lying plains and coastal wetlands washed by tidal forces of the North Sea in the historic Flanders region ( the province of West Flanders ) of western Belgium and the present-day departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais of northernmost France.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

Terrain is mostly a low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs.

The Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands consist of two flat, low-lying coral atolls with an area of, of coastline, a highest elevation of and thickly covered with coconut palms and other vegetation.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a slightly raised central area.

The low-lying coral island has long been noted as hard to sight from small ships and is surrounded by a narrow fringing reef.

Concern was also evident over a projected long-term rise in sea level, which would prove disastrous to the low-lying coral islands.

Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia, with the population of around 68, 000 people spread out over 34 low-lying coral atolls, comprising 1, 156 individual islands and islets.

The land is very low-lying, with narrow coral atolls.

low-lying and narrow coral atolls

* Midway Atoll, a low-lying coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, a possession of the United States of America

Saibai ( one of the largest of the Torres Strait Islands ) and Boigu are low-lying islands which were formed by deposition of sediments and mud from New Guinean rivers into the Strait accumulating on decayed coral platforms.

While many phantom islands appear never to have existed, a few ( such as, perhaps, Thompson Island or Bermeja ) may have been actual islands subsequently destroyed by volcanic explosions, earthquakes or submarine landslides, or low-lying lands such as sand banks that are no longer above water.

The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes.

While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term " fog " is typically distinguished from the more generic term " cloud " in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally ( such as from a nearby body of water, like a lake or the ocean, or from nearby moist ground or marshes ).

Wet meadows occur in areas such as shallow lake basins, low-lying depressions, and the land between shallow marshes and upland areas.

By 1931 the 106, 400 dunums of low-lying Category A farming land in Arab possession supported a farming population of 590, 000 whereas the 102, 000 dunums of such land in Jewish possession supported a farming population of only 50, 000.

The waters, such as they are, drain into this brackish low-lying closed basin area off the Omani mountains and the wadis of the Rub al ' khali.

Note that some parts of the Lowlands ( such as the Southern Uplands ) are not physically ' low ', and some areas indisputably in the Highlands ( such as Islay ) are low-lying.

Moorland nowadays generally means uncultivated hill land ( such as Dartmoor in South West England ), but the Old English mōr also refers to low-lying wetlands ( such as Sedgemoor, also SW England ).

Ease of access from Paris and the popularity of the coastal resorts of central Normandy, such as Deauville, in the 19th century led to a significant loss of distinctive Norman culture in the central low-lying areas of Normandy.

They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems, such as the supply of water to canals, the drainage of low-lying land, and the removal of sewage to processing sites.

Therefore navies turned to various chemicals, such as titanium tetrachloride, that produce a white, low-lying cloud.

Both towns evacuated low-lying areas and lost some historic buildings, such as a 150-year-old general store, to flood damage.

This late discovery can be understood if one remembers how extremely remote, inaccessible and uninhabited that part of the Amazon region is even today, and that it could hardly be expected that such a high mountain ( by Brazilian standards ) could be found standing next to the vast, low-lying Amazon Basin, even though it was known that there were mountains in that area.

In Scottish geography, a Carse ( the modern form of older Scots kerse ) is an area of low-lying, typically alluvial and fertile land occupying certain Scottish river valleys, such as that of the River Forth.

The southern half of the island is primarily low-lying muskeg and made up of Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, such as limestone and sandstone.

A catchwater drain is a land drain, a ditch cut across the fall of the land, typically just above the level of low-lying, level ground such as The Fens of eastern England, where some land, tens of kilometres from the sea is at about sea level.

Unconformities in general tend to reflect long-term patterns of sediments or igneous flows collecting in low-lying areas ( often ocean basins, such as the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea, but also Bangladesh and much of Brazil ), then being uplifted and eroded ( such as the on-going Himalayan orogeny, the older Laramide orogeny of the Rocky Mountains, or much older Appalachian ( Alleghanian ) and Ouachita orogenies ), then subsequently subsiding, eventually to be buried under younger sediments.

Upon making landfall, the hurricane brought a storm surge exceeding, inundating low-lying coastal areas such as Padre Island.

The English place name element birt -, which often signifies the birches such as grow in this low-lying site, in this particular case may be a transformation of de Brute, holding the manor under Edward I.

The levee system again failed, re-flooding low-lying portions of the city such as the Lower Ninth Ward.

Clipperton Island is low-lying and largely barren, save for scattered grasses and a few clumps of coconut palms.

Europa Island () is a 28 km² low-lying tropical island in the Mozambique Channel, about a third of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique.

Kiribati is a member of the Alliance of Small Island States ( AOSIS ), an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small Island countries.

Cloverdale, Barnston Island, low-lying areas of Maple Ridge, areas west of Hope, White Rock, Richmond, parts of Vancouver, and parts of Surrey are potentially at risk.

In the Lower Mainland around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, there are levees to protect low-lying land in the Fraser River delta, particularly the city of Richmond on Lulu Island.

Flagler Road ( SR 116 ) runs along the western edge of Marrowstone Island, which is primarily low-lying.

Before the founding of Rome, the Campus Martius was a low-lying plain enclosed on the west by a bend of the Tiber River near Tiber Island, on the east by the Quirinal Hill, and on the southeast by the Capitoline Hill.

The fierce northeast winds from the storm — with the low pressure area stalled off of Martha's Vineyard — combined with astronomically high tides and storm surge resulting from the storm's low pressure to send water over low-lying land along the shores of Long Island Sound, Cape Cod Bay, and other bodies of water, resulting in some of the worst coastal flooding ever recorded.

Owing to the low-lying level of Rathlin Island and the high elevation of the Mull of Kintyre it is also possible to see over the top of Rathlin Island and on towards the Antrim coastal town of Ballycastle, immediately behind.

It literally means " Bone Island " or " Bone Cay " ( a low-lying island ).

Bleaker Island is long, narrow and low-lying and the southern tip of the Island is separated from Lafonia by a thin stretch of water named ' The Jump '.

The western shores of Bleaker Island are low-lying and fringed by shallow stone beaches.

Prince Charles Island is a large, low-lying island with an area of, making it the world's 78th largest island and the 19th largest island in Canada.

Gattie who asserted, based on unsourced legends, that the sands were once the fertile low-lying island of Lomea, which he equated with an island said to be known to the Romans as Infera Insula (" Low Island ").

In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Flat Island, because it consists of a small, flat hill and surrounding low-lying terrain, which is only visible at close approach.

The Southland Plains is a general name given to several areas of low-lying land in the South Island of New Zealand, separated by the rise of the Hokonui Hills in the north.

The Waikato Plains are a large area of low-lying land in the northwest of the North Island of New Zealand.

About 10 million years ago parts of this relatively low-lying area were thrust up, creating a mountainous backbone for the southern part of the North Island.