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As Powles notes, the Nan Shepherd Prize was launched to broaden definitions of what nature writing can be. Best known as a poet, Powles’ essays swim between travel writing, memoi Fjords are particularly common in coastal Norway, but you can also find them in places like Alaska, Svalbard, Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, and Greenland. Pretty much anywhere you can find coastal glaciers, there’s a chance that there may be a fjord in the region. A type of wetland, swamps are areas that are permanently filled with water. Both freshwater and saltwater swamps exist, but both support distinct ecosystems. This is difficult to measure; do we use length, depth, area or volume? With no governing body to verify the title, the distinction is awarded unofficially dozens of times a year by headline writers. a place to store water for various uses, especially drinking water, which can be a natural or artificial (see lake and impoundment).

A sound is effectively a large ocean inlet. Sounds are more or less the same thing as a bay, but usually on a smaller scale. However, the use of the word “sound” in geography is highly inconsistent and you can find various usages of the term on official maps. Mr. Grossart, small water bodies are particularly affected by declining water levels due to sealing, drainage and drought. What happens when ponds intermittently run dry, and how resilient are they to weather extremes? Fancy yourself as a geographer? Here are some superb fun facts about the different bodies of water on Earth that you can use to impress your friends and family: 1|The Sargasso Sea Is The Only Sea That Doesn’t Have A Land Boundary After my last exam I catch the bus down the hill. Thorndon pool glistens enticingly in the sunshine, the chemical colour of a blue popsicle. With my purple swimming cap and pink goggles on, I swim slow laps in the afternoon sun for thirty-five minutes. Getting dressed, my long hair feels coarse and a little bleached from the chlorine. It falls in waves around my sunburnt shoulders. My mum tells me to cut it but I won’t. I sit on the concrete steps above the pool to eat my bagel, in the exact same spot where I once stood huddled with a group of other twelve-year-old girls, shivering in the wind, trying in vain to cover up our exposed bodies which felt so awkward and new.Moats were particularly popular during the Middle Ages as an additional way to protect a castle. However, since the end of the Middle Ages, most of the world’s remaining moats are simply ornamental and many now support their own freshwater ecosystems. 28. Ocean

Sometimes, complexes of many inlets are collectively referred to as sounds, though this is not the traditional use of the term “sound.” Examples of these collective inlets include the Puget Sound off the coast of northern Washington state in the USA and Howe Sound to the northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. 21. Kettle Lake

Bodies of Water in the USA

A billabong is a type of oxbow lake. However, you will rarely hear this term used to refer to oxbow lakes outside of Australia. I grew up with access to swimming lessons and public swimming pools – privileges that are easy to take for granted when you’re a child.’ Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo, where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in the northwest of London. Nina’s debut essay collection Small Bodies of Water, which weaves together personal memories, dreams and nature writing, and what it means to belong, won the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing. You can read a brilliant excerpt below. A usually-dry bed of a steep-sided stream, gully, or narrow channel that temporarily fills with water after heavy rain. See also wadi.