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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
 The Warsaw Voice - Buzz
The Polish lake district stretches in a long belt from the Vistula valley in the West to the Soviet border in the North and East.
Lakes of this kind, and in particular the large lakes of the Great Mazurian Lake District, are especially popular among sailors.
These lakes are situated in widely varied countryside, and their banks are full of inlets and peninsulas, islands, and sometimes surrounded by forests.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/geography/regions/warmia/cached_1.html   (4884 words)

  
 Canals and navigable rivers
Lake Ontario, in upper left corner, and Lake Erie, scene bottom, are connected by the Niagara River (scene center).
The canal connected Lake Erie to the New York harbor tidewater in a multi-level route that followed the local terrain and was fed by local water sources.
The Elblag canal connects the Vistula estuary at tidewater with Ostróda in the Mazurian upland lake district.
academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/wetland/canal/canals.htm   (2060 words)

  
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 What, Where, When   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Czorsztyn and Niedzica castles defend the banks of the lake, while the lake itself protects the population of the Vistula River’s tributaries from the floods which were once frequent catastrophes.
This lake which is on the UNESCO List of Biosphere Reserves is a neighbour of the Śniardwy and boasts Europe’s largest population of mute swans.
Some one thousand pairs of swans populate the lake and, in July and August, when they shed their plumage, the lake is covered with white swansdown like a snow-white feather quilt.
www.what-where-when.pl /top10/index_2966.htm   (782 words)

  
 Rezydencja Warminska / The Warmian Residence / Rezydencja Warminska Rekreationskomplex
It connects the Druzno and Piniewo Lakes levelling the 100-metre difference between the surface levels of the two lakes with a system of damns and slipways.
Mazurian Lake District is one of the most beautiful natural regions in this country and it is a part of "the Green Lungs of Poland".
Due to their connection by a network of little rivers and canals, the lakes create the whole complex, which is perfectly suitable for such water sports as: sailing, canoeing and swimming.
www.rezydencja-warminska.pl /en/en_tourism.htm   (616 words)

  
 Nuova pagina 1
The Druzno lake is the largest sanctuary of water birds in Poland.
The meeting with Elbląg is the meeting with unclear history, the events from before a thousand years, the time of Middle Age carefully described by the town chronicles and with the latest history of Elbląg.
A waterway connecting Drwęca lake with Druzno lake (see the picture above) consisting of parts of water channel, sluicegates and a system of slipways which is unique in the world.
xoomer.alice.it /3472209533/Sightseeing/Elblag.htm   (414 words)

  
 Inland fisheries of Europe.
He stated that the river area is about one-quarter of the total lake surface area, and also said that the total area of artificial ponds accounts for 16.8 percent of the total area of inland waters in the country.
The other major type of lake, found in areas of ground and frontal moraines, are formed in cavities following glacial accumulations or melting of separate dead-ice blocks and sometimes as a result of damming in the area of a terminal moraine (e.g., Mamry).
The PAA was the manager of 16.3 percent of the total lake area in Poland, 74.6 percent of the total river area, and 69.8 percent of the reservoir area in 1987.
www.fao.org /docrep/009/t0377e/T0377E23.htm   (10299 words)

  
 Explore - Part 30
In the center of the Chelmno Lake District lies the town of Chelmza, which for several centuries was the seat of a bishopric.
Bachotek, on the banks of Lake Bachotek, and Zbiczno are the best-known centers of this kind.
These are located in beautiful countryside on the shores of lakes, and therefore offer happy holidays for the whole family, away from crowds and in close touch with nature.
www.poloniatoday.com /explore30.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Amber Mining & Fishing
Discovered in 1982, the Baltic seaport of Truso was situated on the amber route close to Lake Druzno and Elblag, just east of the Vistula River.
The Kurpie (15th century) people gathered the amber from their own land using simple tools that were specially designed for the task.
They would find amber in lakes, rivers, and streams, as well as while digging ditches and wells or ploughing their fields.
www.khulsey.com /jewelry/kh_jewelry_amber_mining.html   (973 words)

  
 Department of Hydrobiology
The Characteristics of the pelophilous makrozoobenthos of the eutrophic shallow lakes.
Mieszczankin T. A spacio-temporal pattern of pollen sedimentation in a dimictic lake with laminated sediments.
Kentzer A., Buczkowski R., Kentzer A. Application of goethite for immobilization of phosphorus in lake sediments.
www.biol.uni.torun.pl /ochr_sr_en/hydrobio.html   (643 words)

  
 Poland designates five new Ramsar sites
A shallow and largely overgrown lake in the Vistula Delta region near the Baltic Coast, with surrounding wetlands, reedbeds, and swampy alder forests which are a relict of a much larger water body formerly part of the Vistula Lagoon.
While the lake was formerly used as a water route for rafting timber, it is now appreciated mainly for tourist cruising and recreational activities.
It is dominated by woodlands of boreal character with a majority of the swampy forest communities as well as aquatic and mire vegetation in close to natural state.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.poland_five.htm   (968 words)

  
 Exhibition "Gea - means the Earth" : SAMPER
Druzno Lake - a remnant of a Medieval sea bay
lakes Inulec, Mikołajskie, Śniardwy, and Łuknajno in the foreground
filled-up basin of an overgrowing lake is an early stage of moor formation
www.samper.pl /pioe.php?pioe17   (680 words)

  
 Kievan Rus Database (Slavs: Eastern)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The portages along the Danube route were quite difficult to traverse, and many Swedish Vikings chose to travel to Byzantium by the more easterly route that went through the Gulf of Finland.
They then sailed their merchant ships up the Neva River to Lake Ladoga and the mouth of the Volkhov River.
From here they turned southwards to Novgorod on Lake Ilmen, and thence entered the Lovat-Dnieper River road that led to the Black Sea and Byzantium.
members.aol.com /mokosh/Slavs_Eastern.html   (173 words)

  
 The Annotated Ramsar List: Poland
A large, shallow freshwater lake of glacial origin, surrounded by forest, extensive peatbogs, marshes and drainage ditches.
The lake is important for breeding, nesting or staging various species of wetland birds, including ducks and swans.
A freshwater lake of glacial origin, fed by numerous channels, surrounded by marshes and meadows and fringed by reedbeds.
www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_poland.htm   (1572 words)

  
 Elblag
The city lies on the Elblag River, which connects the nearby Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon.
The river is curbed by the Jagielloński and Elblaski Channels, which connect the town with nearby lakes and constitute a popular tourist attraction.
The southern views are of the marshes and swamps that encircle Lake Druzno.
www.staypoland.com /about_elblag.htm   (539 words)

  
 Regional News
Gloe lakes are a special type of freshwater lake which has become naturally separated from the sea in recent times; flads refer to such formations before the separation is complete and the site still has some contact with the sea.
Other types of lake and river wetlands, estuaries and bays are described as bird-lakes or bird wetlands such as Rantasalmi, Lapväärtti, Rääkkylä and Kitee, Heinä-Suvanto and Hetejärvi, Haapavesi and Hailuoto Island, and Siikajoki.
A shallow and largely overgrown lake in the Vistula Delta region near the Baltic Coast, with surrounding wetlands, reedbeds, and alder carrs which are a relict of a much larger water body formerly part of the Vistula Lagoon.
www.imcg.net /imcgnl/nl0405/kap14.htm   (5463 words)

  
 Publications
Bledzki, L.., Bittel, L., Bronisz-Wolnomiejska, D. Pelagic zooplankton of 11 lakes of Tuchola Forests and 14 lakes of Brodnica Lakeland.
Gizinski, A., Bledzki, L., Kentzer, A., Wisniewski, R., Zbikowski, J., Zytkowicz, R., Rejewski, M. Hydrobiological characteristic of Druzno Lake with consideration of lake conserwation (In Polish).
Bledzki, L. Zooplankton of Ciche, Strazym and Plowez lakes (In Polish).
www.mtholyoke.edu /~lbledzki/publ.html   (1478 words)

  
 Traditional zones of transport geography in relation to vessel types
In summer waterways were mostly utilized in a transverse pattern, following the rivers and lake systems, except along the mountain ridges, where the longitudinal crossings from one river valley to another reappear from the pattern of the waterfront.
Wulfstan records a voyage from Hedeby along the coast uninterruptedly to Truso (probably Janów Pomorski at lake Druzno in present-day Poland: Jagodzinski 1988), i e without any calls, presumably at a safe distance from the coast, as indicated by the sounding lead (Crumlin-Pedersen 1984).
Included in the zone are the areas around the largest lake of Scandinavia, Vänern, east (and parts of west Jutland, with a temporarily passable transit area at Limfjorden) and the central part of south Norway (Viken).
www.abc.se /~m10354/publ/transport.htm   (6476 words)

  
 Search Results
Analiza okrzemkowa subatlantyckich osadów w rejonie jeziora Gardno - [Diatom analysis of the subatlantic sediments in the region of Lake Gardno].
Z badañ biostratygraficznych nad osadami z rejonu jeziora Gardno - From biostratigraphical studies of sediment from the region of lake Gardno.
Jezioro Jamno - Diatoms of lake deposits from the Polish Baltic coast.
bobas.ib-pan.krakow.pl /cgi/foxweb.exe/SCRIPTS/okkod?1773   (248 words)

  
 Polish culture: Museum of Elblag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Among its holdings is an interesting collection of Baroque Elblag (Elbing) furniture decorated with intarsia, sixteenth through eighteenth century pewter vessels, pieces from Pomeranian goldsmiths' workshops as well as Elblag and Dutch white ceramics decorated with cobalt and including tableware, tiles and complete stoves.
In 1982 archeologists made a remarkable discovery on the shores of the Druzno Lake near Elblag.
They found the legendary Truso - the early medieval port settlement described by Alfred the Great, the king of England, in the ninth century.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/instytucje/muzea/in_mu_elblag   (323 words)

  
 Viking Expansionism
Although the Scandinavians did use a smaller, more portable boat than the longship for river travel, allowing land-to-water exchanges to be made in a more reasonable fashion, there remained more easily traversed routes to the east that were equal to the western routes.
Some of the eastern routes used by the Vikings went through Druzno in Poland, Kapu ("gate" in Hungarian) on the Kaliningrad coast, Brobin in Latvia, and Tallin in Estonia, or through the Gulf of Finland up the Neva River into Lake Ladoga.
During the eighth century, Aldeigjurborg, a town on Lake Ladoga, was small, but by the tenth century it had become a major trade center.
eeliag.netwiz.net /vik.html   (8791 words)

  
 Velociped
Enjoy a boat trip to lake Druzno which will last 4 hrs and observe lots of different birds from nearby.
Delight yourself on the great boat trip through the lakes of Masuren to Szymonka.
From there you continue on the bikes to Mikolajki (Nikolaiken) — the “Venice of the North”) and watersports centre of Masuren.
www.velociped.de /eng/data/contentseite.php?menu_id=98   (446 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "oligotrophic lake": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Hypolimnion i i i i i i i Figure 6 Thermal and dissolved oxygen profiles of an ideal north-temperate oligotrophic lake in mid-summer.
An oligotrophic lake is one that is nutrient-poor with little plant or animal life.
The water of oligotrophic lakes is generally quite clear.
www.amazon.com /phrase/oligotrophic-lake   (306 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Lake Druzno": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
See all pages with references to Lake Druzno.
One of the earliest to address this was Wisniewski (1958) who examined hosts from eutrophic Lake Druzno and mesotrophic Lake Goldapivo in Poland.
To raise boats to there from sea level at Lake Druzno there's a series of five water-powered inclined planes, which total over two kilometres in length.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Lake-Druzno   (488 words)

  
 Baby Boomer Budget Travel - 2 weeks plus in Elblag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One of the things that was given to me was a map of the bicycle routes of the area.
Each day several boats leave the town docks to go upriver and then on to a unique railway that takes boats in several steps on a special dry car up to a higher level to Druzno Lake described as one of the greatest reserves of water birds in Europe.
A system of 5 inclined planes to overcome the water level difference of 100 meters between Druzno and Piniewo lakes.
www.bbbt.net /showarticles2.php?id=158   (5612 words)

  
 Annex I - Waterway Zones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lake D¹bie to the frontier with internal sea waters
Channel Elblaski from the Lake Druzno to the Lake Jeziorak and the Lake Szel¹g Wielki, together with these lakes and with the lakes on the route of the Channel, and a by-way in the direction of Zalewo from the Lake Jeziorak to the Lake Ewingi, inclusive
River Pisa from the Lake Ros to the estuary of the River Narew
www.mcga.gov.uk /c4mca/mcga-guidance-regulation/mcga-guidance_regulations-inland/mcga-dqs-codes_annex_i.htm   (4135 words)

  
 Velociped
You reach the Oberlaender Channel — a technical highlight from the 19th century - by train and bike.
Enjoy a boat trip to lake Druzno which will last 4 hrs and observe different birds from nearby.
Today’s bike route leads along the bay of Danzig to Frauenburg, where you can visit the famous cathedral, go for a swim or stroll through town.
www.velociped.de /eng/data/contentseite.php?menu_id=97   (580 words)

  
 Poland.pl - Polish Nature - Picture Galleries - Nature Reserves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It includes the fragment of a sand-bar Slowinska, built of diverse eolian forms, with predominating parabolic dunes and large depressions among them, filled with peat layer of varied thickness.
Druzno Lake is a shallow, nutrient-rich lake (up to 1.5 m deep) surrounded by extensive swamp-forest.
There is a significant daily fluctuation in water-level, caused by wind-related water-level fluctuation.
nature.poland.pl /galleries/index,Nature_Reserves,cid,149.htm   (364 words)

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