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has gloss | eng: The Great Dismal Swamp is a marshy area on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States. It is located in parts of southern Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, as well as northern Gates, Pasquotank, and Camden Counties in North Carolina. It is a southern swamp, one of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast including the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida, the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, the Congaree Swamp and Four Holes swamps of South Carolina, and some of the Carolina bays in the Carolinas. Along the eastern edge runs the Dismal Swamp Canal, completed in 1805. |
lexicalization | eng: Great Dismal Swamp |
instance of | (noun) New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982) Marsh, Ngaio Marsh |
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has gloss | nld: Het Great Dismal Swamp (letterlijk vertaald “Groot Akelig Moeras”) is een moerasachtige regio op de kustvlakte van zuidoost Virginia en noordoost North Carolina, tussen Norfolk en Elizabeth City, North Carolina in de Verenigde Staten. Het is een van de vele moerassen langs de kust van de Atlantische Oceaan. |
lexicalization | nld: Great Dismal Swamp |
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geo loc | geographic location 36.640876 -76.451797 |
media:img | Gds1.jpg |
media:img | Gds2.jpg |
media:img | Great Dismal Swamp-Fugitive Slaves.jpg |
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