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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The coast line of Wigry is well developed so if you wanted to walk round the lake it would be a 72 km long trip.
Wigry Lake is not the only one in the Wigierski National Park.
There are the nests of whiter eagles at the Wigry Lake and in its depths there are some species in their relict forms which have not changed since the glacial era.
ettc.uwb.edu.pl /strony/bialystok/pluca/wigry.html   (632 words)

  
 Wigry Lake (Poland, Wigry National Park)
Although Lake Wigry is not traversed by international boundaries, the borders of the Park lie within 30 km of the Lithuanian, Russian and Belorussian frontiers.
The intensity of biological decalcification of water and the role of this process in phosphorous circulation and eutrophication of the lake are unknown and require investigation.
On the shore of Lake Wigry and other lakes and rivers of the park, there is a large population of beavers (Castor fiber) saved in Poland by species protection, habitat protection, and active restitution.
www.wigry.win.pl /adopcja.htm   (3150 words)

  
 Suwalszczyzna - Suwalki Region
Wigry Region with numerous lakes, rivers and wild forests constitutes one of the most interesting and charming corners of Poland.
Płociczno - Wigry - Stary Folwark - Krzywe (38 km).
It is prohibited to catch the European catfish, the lavaret, the lake trout and the river trout.
www.suwalszczyzna.pl /eng_ver/eng02.htm   (916 words)

  
 Wigry National Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A diversified and attractive landscape of the Wigry National Park can be well observed at aerial photos.
The most interesting historical sites include: monastery complex that remained after the Wigry Camaldolite brothers who were present there between 1667 and 1800.
In 1920, a limnological research station was established in Plociczno village, which began the research programme of Wigry lake.
www.mos.gov.pl /kzpn/en/wigi_gb.htm   (835 words)

  
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Characteristic for the area of the Wigry National Park is the high diversity of ecosystems.
The core of the project is the re-production of young trees of a traditional apple tree species as well as the preservation of apple trees, the purchase of animals and their restitution to the farms in the region, and finally the breeding of animals.
The cultivation of young apple trees is situated in Tartak at the Wigry Lake.
www.biodiv.org /programmes/cross-cutting/ecosystem/sourcebook/view.shtml?type=CS_EA&group=CS-EA&id=18022   (1066 words)

  
 Diocese of Sejny
Consequently a separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction was desired, and so Pius VI, on 27 March, 1798, carved out the new diocese and established its see at the Camaldolese monastery of Wigry, a village about ten miles east of the present city of Suwalki.
After the third partition of Poland this territory was ceded to Russia, and in 1818 the Church throughout the Polish kingdom was reorganized.
By a Bull of Pius VII Warsaw was made the metropolitan see and the see of Wigry was changed to Augustówo, a city founded in 1561 by King Sigmund Augustus, after who, it was named, which is still the largest place in that section (population 65,690).
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sejny,diocese_of.html   (487 words)

  
 WIGIERSKI PARK NARODOWY
Centralną częścią Parku jest jezioro Wigry, wraz z całym zespołem jezior otaczających i pozostających z nim w ścisłym związku hydrologicznym.
Akweny udostępnione dla turystów i wędkarzy to: Wigry, Pierty, Omułówek, Mulaczysko, Czarne k.Bryzgla, Leszczewek, Postaw i rzeka Czarna Hańcza poniżej Wigier.
Wigry - statek TRYTON - szlak 15 km
suwalszczyzna.com.pl /parki/wpn.htm   (414 words)

  
 The Warsaw Voice - Travel
In the second half of the 17th century, 1667 to be exact, King Jan Kazimierz permitted the Cameldolitean Order to build a monastery on the peninsula, giving the monks ownership of Lake Wigry and the two forest districts, while reserving the right to hunt in the forests surrounding the monastery.
In the late 18th century, before Wigry became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the holdings of the monastery encompassed several dozen villages, more than 10 farms, and even bodies of water and forests.
Lake Wigry, the largest lake in the park, and one of the largest in Poland at 2,991 hectares, has an unusual shoreline more than 72 km long, a large number of islands and a depth of as much as 73 meters in some places.
www2.warsawvoice.pl /old/v505/travel.html   (1371 words)

  
 Brief Guide-book on the region's tourist attractions
The monastery was being built in 1694-1745, the monastery was re-built many times due to the I and II World War demolition and destruction.
- the biggest lake in the park is Wigry lake of the area of 2178 hectares.
At present, the narrow-gauge railway is a great tourist attraction of the Wigry National Park and the Augustow Forest.
www.it.mazury.pl /atrakcje/gb.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Wigry travel guide - Wikitravel
Europe : Central Europe : Poland : Wigry
Wigry [1] is city in Suwalki, Voivodship Podlaskie, in Poland.
This page was last modified 20:30, 12 April 2006 by Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.
wikitravel.org /en/Wigry_(town)   (51 words)

  
 SILNEWS 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Conservation Committee of SIL has accepted Lake Wigry (see related story), within the Wigry National Park, as the first lake to be adopted by SIL.
The Scientific Committee for Lake Wigry, presided by Professor Boguslaw Zdanowski of the Institute of Inland Fisheries, Oloztyn, will prepare a management plan which defines long-term research and monitoring programmes, with advice from SIL specialists, to develop integrated projects of value to the conservation of the lake, and setting out priorities.
Co-operation with SIL and with scientists associated with SIL may entail joint research projects, advice on management issues, endorsement of research activities of the Park’s staff, assistance with organisation of scientific meetings at Lake Wigry, donation of publications or apparatus to the Park’s laboratory.
www.limnology.org /news/26/adoption.html   (444 words)

  
 Jezioro Wigry - największe jezioro Pojezierza Suwalskiego
Jezioro Wigry jest położone wśród lasów Puszczy Augustowskiej - gdzie las porasta prawie 80 % linii brzegowej.
Jej rzeźba jest bardzo urozmaicona - od niskich gdzie niegdzie bagiennych - po wyniosłe z kemami i wzgórzami morenowymi.
Jezioro Wigry należy do Wigierskiego Parku Narodowego i z tym związane są pewne nakazy i zakazy zachowań.
www.wigry.net.pl /dane/wigry_j.php   (324 words)

  
 Europarc.org
The Wigry National Park in Poland joined the EUROPARC junior ranger network in 2005 upon successful application for one of the junior ranger grants, which were awarded by EUROPARC and funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Environment, Health and Consumer Protection (D) to support the organisation of junior ranger activities in protected areas.
The minister of the environment was visiting the Wigry National Park and had a meeting with Junior Rangers.
He remarked that women time is coming looking at the number of girls and presented Junior Rangers with their certificates for the successful completion of the Wigry National Park's junior ranger programme as part of the EUROPARC Junior Ranger Network 2005.
www.europarc.org /juniorranger/network/wigry_np/wigry_np.php   (938 words)

  
 Suwalszczyzna - Wigry. Informacje turystyczne, historia, zdjęcia, opisy najciekawszych miejsc. Agroturystyka, ...
Wieś Wigry jest położona na brzegu jeziora Wigry u podnóża wzgórza klasztoru pokamedulskiego.
W rok później nastąpiła ich uroczysta introdukcja (wprowadzenie) na Wigry.
Wigry stały się siedzibą nowo utworzonej diecezji - do 1818 roku.
www.suwalszczyzna.com.pl /miejsca/dane_m/wigry.htm   (564 words)

  
 Explore - Part 29
Suwalki is the largest town in the area, and is a convenient centre for visiting Lake Wigry and other areas of the Suwalki Lake District.
It stretches from the border with Lithuania in the east to a line drawn between Suwalki and Augustow; in the north it goes up to the shores of Lake Wigry; and in the south it runs to the Biebrza river.
From Lake Wigry to Augustow, it the last part of the route is on the Augustow Canal.
www.poloniatoday.com /explore29.htm   (1176 words)

  
 SILNEWS 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Lake Wigry is situated in the Wigry National Park (150 km
The different basins, separated by islands and peninsulas, lead to isolation of water masses and habitat differences (trophic, thermal and oxygen conditions) in separate areas of the lake.
The installation of a modern sewage plant with precipitation of phosphorus, at Suwalki, has improved the situation considerably but continued inputs of nutrients from the catchment and the farms still present threats to the lake.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/sil/news/26/wigry.html   (646 words)

  
 Poland.pl - Polish Nature - Picture Galleries - Wigry National Park
Polish nature - its main values and the problems it is facing.
Nature is a gigantic system which is incessantly in operation and it must be looked at as a whole made up of a multitude of elements.
Wigry National Park occupies the area of 15 thousand ha.
nature.poland.pl /galleries/gallery,Wigry_National_Park,gid,145245,cid,475.htm   (199 words)

  
 About us
Alicja and Ryszard Staniewicz invite you to stay at their farm located in Sumowo on lake Dmitrowo, near the town of Sejny.
The farm is situated in the wigry national park.
Cruising on lake Wigry (On the ship that was used by the pope)
www.aqa.pl /sumowo/aindex.htm   (205 words)

  
 Kraina przyrody i przygody
Utworzono go, by chronić jezioro Wigry - perłę Suwalszczyzny, które nie tak dawno włączone zostało do światowego programu ochrony ekosystemów wodnych "AQUA".
Jednak Wigry nie są jedynym jeziorem w Parku.
Ze Starego folwarku wyruszyć mozna na spływy poprzez jezioro Wigry, Czarną Hańczę do Kanału Augustowskiego i dalej do granicy państwa lub w stronę rzeki Biebrzy.
www.rsi.com.pl /kraina/wigry.htm   (296 words)

  
 Dom Goœcinny/ Pensjonat nad jeziorem Wigry - Stary Folwark - Wigierski Park Narodowy. Suwalszczyzna zaprasza na wczasy ...
Dom Goœcinny/ Pensjonat nad jeziorem Wigry - Stary Folwark - Wigierski Park Narodowy.
DOM GOŚCINNY "AZYL" w Starym Folwarku proponuje całoroczny wypoczynek nad jeziorem Wigry w sercu Wigierskiego Parku Narodowego.
W tej atrakcyjnej okolicy oferujemy do wynajęcia oddaloną o ok. 400m od brzegu jeziora Wigry prywatna posesję o powierzchni ok. 1300m2 składającą się z dwóch domów o wysokim standardzie z garażem, miejscami parkingowymi oraz terenem zieleni.
www.azyl-wigry.com   (207 words)

  
 Armator - cruises around Wigry Lake
nd you can sail away with us and admire a beautiful landscape of The Wigry National Park.
We invite you for a cruise around the Wigry Lake, on board of "Tryton" which in 1999 was visited by the Pope, John Paul II.
The ship sails out from under the Monastic Complex of the Camaldolese Monks in Wigry village.
www.wigry.info.pl /index_en.html   (208 words)

  
 Suwalszczyzna - Suwalki Region
In Suwałki Region there are the following types of lakes: the European whitefish, the trout and European whitefish, the pike perch and bream, the bream and pike, the tench, the crucian carp lakes and lakes with a mixture of many species.
The host of the waters of Wigry National Park is its administration.
In Wigry National Park, fishing is licensed and allowed on the following lakes: Czarne (near Bryzgiel), Czarne (near Gawrychruda), Leszczewek, Mulaczysko, Omułówek, Pierty and Wigry, as well as in the Czarna Hańcza River, in the section from Czerwony Folwark to Studziany Las.
www.suwalszczyzna.pl /eng_ver/eng22.htm   (544 words)

  
 WIGRY LAKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It is easy to acquaint oneself with the Wigry National Park, with beautiful crystal clear lakes the refreshing waters of Wigry will cleanse your soul.
Up until the 13th century, the tribes of Jaćwing lived here, in the vicinity of the national park.
There are many secrets and legends that may draw your attention too, for example the Camelolite monastery located on the shores of the beautiful Wigry Lake.
www.biebrza-explorer.com.pl /english/wigry.htm   (80 words)

  
 The Borderlander - Tomas Venclova
The close cooperation of both dissidents and emigrés, best known in Poland from the pages of Zeszyty Literackie ("Literary Notebooks"), is yet another aspect of the mutuality of fate which extends throughout the life and work of Tomasz Venclova.
The conference devoted to the new Borderland laureate Tomas Venclova will take place from 30 August to 2 September 2001 at Borderland House, the White Synagogue of Sejny and the Monastery of Wigry.
20:30 "Homage a Tomas Venclova" by Stasys Eidrigevicius (Monastery at Wigry lakeside)
www.pogranicze.sejny.pl /archiwum/english/projects/venclova.html   (781 words)

  
 HOUSE & FARM PROPERTY FOR RENT
Located in North Eastern Poland 20 Km from Suwalki, 12 Km from the Lithuanian boarder, and about 20 Km south of the boarder with Kaliningrad, Russia.
Poland's largest National park, Wigry with beautiful Wigry lake and Monastery is only 10 Km away.
The house is located on about 7 hectares a non-operating farm.
www.wabun.org /renthouse/index.html   (177 words)

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