Prior to mass agricultural and urban development, much of the city consisted of rolling hills bisected by wooded creeks and interspersed with marsh land.
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This is the first historical document, then, on the Romney Marshes and demonstrates the connection between landholdings in the uplands and the detached marsh lands.
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The myriad canals are covered in green duckweed ( hence the Green Venice nickname ) and the drained marsh land is home to a varied fauna.
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Okkiyam Maduvu originates as a narrow canal from the Pallikaranai marsh land and travels eastwards towards Muttukadu lake which is around 16 kilometers from its origin.
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The last remnant in 1947 was a patch of marsh land located just to the south of Heathfield Hospital, an area now covered by a housing estate.
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After World War II, Queens and Long Island went through a major suburban building boom leading to the marsh land west of Cross Bay Boulevard to be filled in.
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A special position is taken with the " Wei�es Moor " ( White bog ), the only bog still existing in quite natural shape in the Schleswig-Holstein marsh land.
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Rather than being a small piece of marsh land, the Japanese claimed that Jiandao included territory of four counties ( Yanji, Wangqing, Helong and Hunchun ) of Jilin province.
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Bernard has a 1930 letter by the state of Louisiana suggesting to McIlhenny that Avery Island, prime marsh land in south Louisiana, would be a good location for raising nutria.
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The Simpsons are later seen in the middle of the marsh lands and rivers of the clearing of a section of rainforest in order to make way for a Krusty Burger.
