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Bald cypress swamp

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Everglades marsh

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Everglades marsh

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bog marsh swamp banto faros salt marsh fen hawr mangrove forest raised bog salt swamp river lake canals and inland waterways tundra desert grassland lagoon ocean gulf rainforest

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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