Their artillery and machine guns were well placed in the palms fringing the eastern side of a great flat marsh, which stretched right across the front of their position, giving them an excellent field of fire.
The windblown sand accumulated, in the postglacial period, up to a height of 45 feet (15 metres) above the flat marshes and moors of the Bremer Becken (lowlands).
The existing Bradwell power station buildings, clad in scaffold and sheeting, look over a flat expanse of farmland and marsh towards the exposed 7th-century chapel of St Peter's, one of Britain's oldest surviving churches.
At the heart of the project stands the restoration of 379 acres into a blend of mud flats, marsh, forested wetlands and open waters that corps scientists believe will aid songbirds, migrating ducks and geese and fish in search of spawning areas.
There is a section on the further side, less frequently visited, which consists of a flat, swampy marshland: today, a path of wooden planks meanders across the marsh.
St. Martin's Neck Road in the Isle of Wight Wildlife Management Area is perfect: a flat stretch of asphalt that meanders through a saltwater marsh, then past chicken houses, farm plots and cornfields.
A modern white stucco complex of two buildings — one her residence, the other a headquarters of the P.P.P. — it is enclosed by a high concrete wall, and sits in the midst of a desolate marsh of salt flats and sand, not far from the sea.
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It lies near the head of the Persian Gulf at the northern end of a flat and narrow peninsula that is connected with the mainland by tidal marshes.
