VISTULA LAGOON

Pol. Zalew Wiślany, shallow inlet of the Baltic Sea, 322 sq mi (834 sq km), c.60 mi (100 km) long and from 6 to 11 mi (9.7–18 km) wide, N Poland and W Russia, separated from the Gulf of Danzig by a narrow sand spit. The Nogat and Pregel rivers flow into the lagoon. A dredged channel cuts across the northern end of the inlet and links the Baltic Sea with the Kaliningrad ship canal. The lagoon's shoreline is generally marshy. Kaliningrad is the chief city on the lagoon.

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books on: Vistula Lagoon  - 13 results

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Fortress Europe: European Fortifications of World War II
Book by J. E. Kaufmann, Robert M. Jurga, H. W. Kaufmann; Combined Publishing, 1999
Subjects: Fortification--Europe--History--20th Century
...the position known as Fortress Samland constituted the final interior line running from the Frisches Lagoon Vistula Lagoon to the Kurisches Lagoon Courland Lagoon well in front of Konigsberg. The small positions of the Heilsberg Triangle south of...
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Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
Book by George J. Lerski; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Poland--History--Dictionaries
vislansky Kray" Vistula Land . The Modem Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History , ed...1609. As a result, the Swedes retained the territories on the Vistula Lagoon up to Klajpeda and Pilawa together with Livonia * up to the River...
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Green Post-Communism? Environmental Aid, Polish Innovation, and Evolutionary Political Economics
Book by Mikael Sandberg; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Environmental Policy--Europe, Central, Environmental Policy--Europe, Eastern, Environmental Policy--Poland, Green Movement--Europe, Central, Green Movement--Europe, Eastern, Green Movement--Poland, Technological Innovations--Environmental Aspects
...monitoring system, a 0.79 mECU Phare 1 grant for an Upper Vistula monitoring system . Grants to monitoring in Silesia...environmental assessment for further actions in the Vistula lagoon, a 3.5 mDKK grant for monitoring and environmental...
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Ocean's End: Travels through Endangered Seas
Book by Colin Woodard; Basic Books, 2000
Subjects: Marine Pollution, Marine Resources Conservation
...already damaged by other stresses. A North American bristle worm now dominates the bottom of Polands highly polluted Vistula lagoon. Mnemiopsis leidyi snuffed out most other life in the Black Sea after massive algae blooms, overfishing, and pollution...
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A History of the Great War
Book by John Buchan; Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
...range, watered by the upper Vistula and its tributaries, the Wisloka...river Pregel and the large lagoon called the Frisches Haff...line of forts on the lower Vistula, guarding the road from East to West Prussia. Thorn on the Vistula, and Danzig at its mouth...
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Crustacean Invasions in the Estonian Coastal Sea/ Uute Ja Haruldaste Vahiliikide Levik Eesti Rannikumeres
Journal article by Kristjan Herkul, Jonne Kotta, Teemar Puss, Ilmar Kotta; Estonian Journal of Ecology, Vol. 58, 2009
Subjects: Amphipoda--Distribution, Amphipoda--Natural history, Amphipods--Distribution, Amphipods--Natural history, Introduced species--Research, Invasive species--Research, Pelagic zone--Properties
...drainage system including the Curonian Lagoon of the Baltic Sea. In 1999 P. robustoides...while P. lacustris inhabits the Curonian Lagoon, the southern Baltic Sea, already since...and retreat of natives in the Vistula Lagoon (Baltic Sea, Poland). Helgoland Mar...


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Crawling out of the Pipe: The Hazardous Waste That Makes More of Itself
Magazine article by Chris Bright; World Watch, Vol. 12, January 1999
Subjects: Biological invasions--Environmental aspects, Commerce--Environmental aspects, International trade--Environmental aspects
...North American Atlantic coast now constitutes 97 percent of the biomass of the large bottom-dwelling species in the Vistula lagoon, on the Polish coast. . . . from The Chinese mitten crab and an Asian clam have East Asia invaded San Francisco...


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encyclopedia articles on: Vistula Lagoon  - 5 results

 
 
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Vistula Lagoon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VISTULA LAGOON Pol. Zalew Wislany, shallow...Pregel rivers flow into the lagoon. A dredged channel cuts...Kaliningrad ship canal. The lagoons shoreline is generally marshy...is the chief city on the lagoon...
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Vistula
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Nogat, which flows past Malbork to the Vistula Lagoon, and the Martwa Wisla dead Vistula, which flows past Gdansk. Navigable for small craft for almost its entire length, the Vistula is connected by canals with the Oder, Dnieper...
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Zalew WiŚlany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZALEW WISLANY inlet: see Vistula Lagoon , Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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East Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The region is drained by several rivers including the Nemen (Nieman); the Baltic coast is deeply indented by the Vistula Lagoon (Frisches Haff) and by the Gulf of Kursh (Kurisches Haff). In the 13th cent. the Teutonic Knights conquered...
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ElblĄg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Elbing el bing, city (1994 est. pop. 127,500), Warminsko-Mazurskie prov., N Poland. A seaport near the Vistula Lagoon, it has shipyards, machinery plants, and an important metallurgical industry. In 1237 the Teutonic Knights built...


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