414 articles
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords (Karrebæk, Dybsø og Avnø Fjorde) are shallow coastal lagoons and fjords on southwestern Zealand, Denmark, a Ramsar site since 1977, important for wintering waterbirds and breeding gray seals.
Kerala backwaters
The Kerala backwaters, also called the Backwaters of Kerala, are a network of canals, lakes, and lagoons stretching over 900 kilometers along India's Malabar Coast, best known for houseboat cruises and tourism.
Khor Abu Habil Inner Delta
Khor Abu Habil Inner Delta: Sudanese inland wetland (Ramsar Site no. 2485, 946,409 ha, designated 10 April 2022) 400 km southwest of Khartoum, formed by a seasonal river from the Nuba Mountains, with mayas pools and migratory waterbirds.
Kissimmee River
Kissimmee River, central Florida river flowing to Lake Okeechobee; channelized 1962-1971 into the C-38 canal, then restored 1999-2021 by backfilling 22 miles of canal and reconnecting 44 miles of historic channel.
Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong)
Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 728, covers the Mekong from Prek Chhlong to Khone Falls in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, with nearly 30 endemic fishes, deep pools, Irrawaddy dolphins, and a threatened Stung Treng flooded forest.
La Tembladera
La Tembladera, a 200-hectare Ramsar wetland lagoon in Santa Rosa canton, El Oro, Ecuador, fed by the Arenillas river; also a Peruvian district center, a Veracruz railway station, and a Spanish word for trembling.
Lagoon
Lagoon: a shallow body of water separated from the sea or ocean by a barrier; two types, atoll lagoons inside coral rings and coastal lagoons behind sand barriers, with salinity from fresh to hypersaline.
Laguna de Llancanelo
Laguna de Llancanelo, Ramsar site 759 in Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentina, is an endorheic saline wetland designated in 1995 and extended to 91,365 ha in 2020, famed for over 100,000 waterbirds and Chilean flamingos.
Laguna de Tamiahua
Laguna de Tamiahua, a shallow coastal lagoon in northern Veracruz, Mexico; Ramsar site 1596 (2005), 88,000 ha, third largest coastal lagoon in Mexico, with major mangrove forests, oyster fisheries, and protected turtles, fish, and seahorses.
Lake Argyle
Lake Argyle, Western Australia's largest and Australia's second-largest freshwater lake, is an Ord River reservoir created by the Argyle Dam (opened 1972), storing 11,000,000 megalitres for irrigation, hydroelectricity, and the Ramsar-listed Lakes Argyle and Kununurra wetlands.
Lake Burullus
Lake Burullus (بحيرة البرلس), Egypt's second-largest coastal lagoon in the Nile Delta, a hypereutrophic Ramsar wetland fed by agricultural drains, connected to the Mediterranean through the narrow El-Boughaz inlet, and under rehabilitation since 2018.
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora, also called Te Waihora, is a shallow, brackish coastal lake-lagoon in Canterbury, New Zealand, separated from the sea by Kaitorete Spit.
Lake Galilee (Queensland)
Lake Galilee is a 29,659-hectare intermittent, internally draining lake in the Desert Uplands of central Queensland, part of the Lake Eyre Basin, a DIWA nationally important wetland and Key Biodiversity Area supporting up to 10,000 pelicans.
Lake Kaņieris
Lake Kaņieris (Kaņiera ezers) is a shallow lagoon-origin lake in Ķemeri National Park, Latvia; 1,122 ha, 13th largest in Latvia, Ramsar site since 1995, rich in birds and pike.
Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)
Lake Macquarie (Awaba) is a large coastal saltwater lake on the Hunter coast of New South Wales, Australia, just south of Newcastle and about 90 km north of Sydney.
Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo), Venezuela's large brackish estuary and South America's largest lake, heart of the country's oil industry since 1914, now heavily affected by oil spills and eutrophication.
Lake Wairarapa
Lake Wairarapa, also part of Wairarapa Moana, is a shallow 7,850 ha freshwater lake in the southern North Island of New Zealand, the Wellington Region's largest lake, supertrophic, protected by a 1989 water conservation order and a 2020 Ramsar designation.
Lake Warden system
Lake Warden system, a Ramsar-listed (7 June 1990) complex of saline lakes and marshes near Esperance, Western Australia, covering about 1,999 ha, important for hooded plover, chestnut teal and 25 migratory waterbird species.
Lakes Argyle and Kununurra
Lakes Argyle and Kununurra: Ramsar-listed artificial freshwater wetlands on the Ord River in the East Kimberley, Western Australia, formed by the 1963 Diversion Dam and 1972 Argyle Dam; Lake Argyle is Australia's second-largest freshwater lake and a major freshwater crocodile and waterbird refuge.
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires (Lätäsenon-Hietajoen suot), Ramsar Site 1520 in Enontekiö, Lapland: a 43,367 ha palsa mire and river complex protected since 1988, part of Käsivarren erämaa Natura 2000 area.
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park, a 1,082 ha BC park on the Alaska Highway at km 765, protects Canada's second largest hot spring (Alpha pool 42–52°C, 81 L/s), warm swamps, and the endemic Hotwater Physa snail.
Lindow Woman
Lindow Woman (Lindow I), a female bog body skull found 13 May 1983 at Lindow Moss, Cheshire; initially dated 30-50 years old, it prompted Peter Reyn-Bardt's murder confession before radiocarbon dating showed it was Roman-era.
List of hot springs
List of hot springs: survey of notable thermal springs and inventories, including Waring's ~6,000 global spring areas, the 1,700-spring US list, Yellowstone, Hot Springs National Park, and European spa towns.
List of hot springs in the United States
Hot springs of the United States: 1,661 documented thermal springs, concentrated in the West, from Hot Springs National Park (1832 reservation, 143°F water) and Yellowstone's 10,000+ features to resort, refuge, and Indigenous sites.
List of people who have gone over Niagara Falls
The list of people who have gone over Niagara Falls records descents from 1901 to 2012, beginning with Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive the plunge in a barrel.
List of spa towns
List of spa towns: towns built around mineral or thermal springs for bathing and drinking cures. Covers the eleven UNESCO Great Spa Towns of Europe, British, Czech, and other notable resorts, their 1700s-1930s heyday, and clinical evidence.
List of waterfalls
List of waterfalls: catalogs of notable waterfalls (tallest Tugela Falls 948 m; Niagara's North American flow record), organized by continent and country, with OpenStreetMap counting 88,639 tagged falls, 52,840 unnamed.
List of waterfalls by type
Waterfall types classify falls by descent style (plunge, horsetail, cascade, segmented, block, tiered), by morphometry (Schwick and Spichtig's seven types), or by formation process such as differential erosion, glaciation, or tectonics.
List of waterfalls in India by height
List of waterfalls in India by height, also called India's tallest waterfalls ranking: Kunchikal Falls (455 m, Karnataka) is the highest, Barehipani (399 m) second, Nohkalikai (340 m) the tallest plunge; sources disagree on some figures.
List of wetland plants
List of wetland plants: the U.S. National Wetland Plant List (NWPL), successor to the 1976 and 1988 Fish and Wildlife Service hydrophyte lists, assigning OBL, FACW, FAC, FACU, and UPL wetland indicator statuses by region for wetland delineation.