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Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests: seasonally flooded forest and shrubland ecoregion around Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia, inundated 6–8 months yearly by the Mekong flood pulse; fish nursery habitat, heavily cleared, with Prek Toal the best remaining stand.
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests: a Cambodian freshwater swamp-forest ecoregion of permanently shallow-inundated land around Tonle Sap, marked by flood-pulse adaptation, severe fire and rice-conversion losses, and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve protection.
Torronsuo National Park
Torronsuo National Park (Torronsuon kansallispuisto), established 1990 in Tammela, Finland, protects the largest raised bog in southern Finland, 25.5 km², with peat up to 12 m deep, Natura 2000 and Ramsar status.
Tourbiere
Tourbiere (French tourbière) means peatland: a waterlogged wetland where undecayed plants form peat. Bogs are rain-fed, fens groundwater-fed; peatlands cover 3% of land yet store 20% of soil carbon.
Towra Point
Towra Point: 632-hectare Ramsar wetland (site 286, listed 1984) on Botany Bay's southern shore, 16 km from Sydney; largest estuarine wetland in the Sydney Basin, holding 40% of Sydney's mangroves and 60% of its saltmarsh.
Tso Kar Wetland Complex
Tso Kar Wetland Complex, Ramsar Site no. 2443 in Ladakh's Changthang region, pairs freshwater Startsapuk Tso with hypersaline Tso Kar at over 4,500 m; a black-necked crane and saker falcon breeding site.
Tugela Falls
Tugela Falls, South African tiered waterfall on the Tugela River in the Drakensberg's Amphitheatre, KwaZulu-Natal; 948 m over five tiers, tallest drop 411 m; Africa's highest and rival to Angel Falls for world's tallest by total height.
Tuzly Lagoons (Тузлові лимани)
Tuzly Lagoons (Тузлові лимани), Shagany-Alibei-Burnas system, are brackish Black Sea limans in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine; a Ramsar site and, since 2010, a 27,865 ha national nature park.
Typha
Typha (cattail) is a cosmopolitan wetland plant genus of rhizomatous perennials with brown flower spikes. Key species include T. latifolia, T. angustifolia, and the invasive hybrid T. × glauca.
Typha latifolia
Typha latifolia, broadleaf or common cattail, is a cosmopolitan emergent wetland plant of Typhaceae with male and female flower spikes touching; it hybridizes with T. angustifolia to form invasive T. × glauca and is used in wastewater treatment.
UL Bend Wetland Management District
UL Bend Wetland Management District is the name given to the wetland management district serving UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, a 56,090-acre refuge on the Missouri River in central Montana.
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning, Ramsar site 146 in Denmark's Limfjord (Nordjylland, 18,575 ha, designated 1977), a shallow fjord and dammed brackish lagoon of international importance for Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, and Light-bellied Brent Goose.
Upper Zambezi Floodplains
Upper Zambezi Floodplains, or Barotse Floodplain (Bulozi Plain), a Ramsar floodplain-wetland ecoregion on the upper Zambezi in Zambia and Angola, annually flooded, flow-regulating, home of the Lozi people.
Valley of Geysers (Долина гейзеров)
The Valley of Geysers (Dolina Geizerov) is a geyser field in the Kronotsky State Nature Reserve on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, discovered in 1941 by geologist Tatiana Ustinova.
Várzea forest
Várzea forest, Amazonian whitewater floodplain forest (contrasted with igapó), flooded by nutrient-rich Andean sediment rivers; covers 60,000–100,000 km², floods up to 230 days yearly, hosts about one sixth of Amazonian tree diversity.
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning
Vejlerne and Løgstør Bredning: adjoining Limfjord wetlands in northern Jutland, Denmark; a 60 km² former land-reclamation area turned northern Europe's largest bird reserve, plus a 250 km² shallow fjord, jointly a 1977 Ramsar site.
Venetian Lagoon
Venetian Lagoon (Laguna di Venezia), shallow 550 km² Mediterranean tidal lagoon in northeast Italy, connected to the Adriatic by the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets; UNESCO-listed with Venice in 1987, eroding salt marshes, MoSE flood barriers.
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls, or Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the Smoke That Thunders"), is the Zambezi River waterfall on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, the world's largest curtain of falling water at 1,708 m wide and up to 108 m deep, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1989.
Vossia cuspidata
Vossia cuspidata, hippo grass, sole species of genus Vossia, a C4 perennial emergent aquatic Poaceae grass native to Africa and Assam to Indo-China, floating spongy culms to 7 m, IUCN Least Concern, invasive in Egypt's Nile.
Walking catfish
Walking catfish (Clarias batrachus), also called magur, is a Southeast Asian air-breathing catfish that moves overland using pectoral fins. Established in Florida since the 1960s, listed as injurious wildlife under the Lacey Act since 1970.
Wallaman Falls
Wallaman Falls is a 268-meter single-drop waterfall on Stony Creek in Girringun National Park, 51 km south-west of Ingham, Queensland, and Australia's tallest single-drop waterfall.
Waterfall
Waterfall: a very steep, nearly vertical fall in a river course, synonymous with knickpoint. Forms on resistant caprock over softer rock, retreats by undercutting or plunge-pool drilling, and acts as a fish-migration barrier.
Waterfalls by flow rate
Waterfalls by flow rate ranks the world's waterfalls by mean annual discharge, led by Inga Falls on the Congo River at 25,768 m³/s, with Boyoma Falls first among true waterfalls.
Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park
Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park: 22 named falls on Kitchen Creek's Glen Leigh and Ganoga Glen branches, uniting at Waters Meet; tallest is 94-foot Ganoga Falls, seen via the 7.2-mile Falls Trail loop.
Waterfalls of Australia
The waterfalls of Australia are the named drops of its rivers and streams, numbering 2,885, with Wallaman Falls in Queensland the tallest single drop at 268 meters.
Waterfalls of Glacier National Park
The waterfalls of Glacier National Park in Montana number about 46 named falls, formed by Pleistocene glaciation, peaking in June and early July and frozen by November.
Waterfalls of Mexico
The Waterfalls of Mexico include Basaseachic in Chihuahua, often cited as the country's tallest, and Hierve el Agua in Oaxaca, a petrified waterfall of calcium carbonate.
Waterfalls of Oregon
Oregon is among the most waterfall-dense US states, with 1,633 inventoried falls, more than 90 clustered in the Columbia River Gorge and Multnomah Falls the most visited.
Waterfalls of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Waterfalls of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, including Raymondskill Falls, Dingmans Falls, and Silver Thread Falls, are glacial-meltwater knickpoint cascades on Pocono Plateau streams in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with access rules set by the park compendium.
Waterfalls of Washington (state)
Waterfalls of Washington (state): over 2,900 falls, more than any other US state, led by Colonial Creek Falls (about 2,568 ft) and Palouse Falls, the official state waterfall since 2014, carved by Ice Age floods.