Wetlands of the World, “D...-”
for geography and social studies classrooms, home schools.

The Danube Delta is a low alluvial plain, mostly covered by wetlands and water. It consists of an intricate pattern of marshes, channels, streamlets and lakes as the Danube River empties into the Black Sea.

FYI ~ The Old Bavarian Donaumoos is a former bog on the southern side of the Danube river.

The Deep Bay at Hong Kong an internationally significant wetland that is actually a shallow estuary of several rivers. The Mai Po Marshes on the south shore are protected as a conservation area for mammals, reptiles, insects, and over 350 species of birds. The north shore is a high urban development area.

Delaware Bay is a major estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the Northeast Atlantic seaboard of the United States, just to the north of the Chesapeake Bay.

The shores of the bay are largely composed of salt marshes and mud flats: the southern shore is the coast of the Delmarva Peninsula, the northern shore is New Jersey.

Great Dismal Swamp is a marshy area on the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina with Lake Drummond at the center.

In 1805 a canal was completed along the eastern edge of the swamp; it is now a part of the Intercoastal Waterway which shelters boaters from the Atlantic Ocean.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, told of the runaway slave communities that survived in swamps.

• Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks poster