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• n  a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

• How would the ocean-going monster have gotten into a freshwater lagoon? Tuggerah Lake is connected to the Pacific Ocean through a tidal channel called The Entrance.
• One of the caveats: "Swimming, snorkeling, sailing and windsurfing in the lagoon all involve possible contact with hostile and potentially deadly marine life.
• Last week, exactly 22 years after the great flood, a 200-ton steel box was towed across the Venice Lagoon and dropped in place at the Porto di Lido, one of the lagoon's three .

• laguna
• lagune

News & Articles

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• Decorated ducks invade historic Bristol Lagoon as Canal Festival 2013 sets sail with candlelit wishes (SLIDESHOW)
  BRISTOL BOROUGH – Hundreds lined the banks of the Bristol Lagoon Friday evening for another successful Canal Festival. Even Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their new baby made an appearance, well, at least they did in duck form.
  June 24, 2013 - Bristol Pilot
• Our Indian River Lagoon: New FIT facility will be 'premier marine science research center,' president says
  How will spending $10 million to renovate a tracking station help the Indian River Lagoon?
  June 24, 2013 - Indian River Press Journal
• Sea turtle fans flock to mass release into Indian River Lagoon
  More than 100 people turned up Monday morning to help biologists with the National Marine Fisheries Service release 28 loggerhead sea turtles into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet.
  June 24, 2013 - Florida Today

Quotes

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• David Jablonski in Science Daily (press release)
  The evolutionary legacy of the end-Cretaceous extinction is very much with us. In fact, it can be seen in virtually every marine community, every lagoon, every continental shelf in the world,said University of Chicago paleontologist David...
• Mickey Hart in Earthtimes (press release)
  I would not be the musician I am today if I had not had the opportunity to embrace music at a young age,said Hart. "And now I get to do things like put percussive sound to the image of fire and have it dance around a lagoon. That's not...
• Anote Tong in International Herald Tribune
  There's nowhere to move back to,Kiribati's president Anote Tong told climate conference attendees. "Because if you move back, you're either in the lagoon or in the ocean."