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Formerly surrounded by water on all sides, Victoria Island, Lagos state’s financial centre and most expensive residen- tial district, became merged with the Lekki Peninsula...Read more

Sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the Leb- anon Mountains, Beirut is a site of successive Phoenician, Roman, and Ottoman ports, Beirut has a rich...Read more

Formerly located outside of the city of London, the town of North Woolwich once existed in low lying marshlands along the Thames River. Following 1844...Read more

Formerly an open expanse of Biscayne Bay, the stretch of water between mainland Miami and Miami Beach was linked in 1913 by a 4 km...Read more

Originally one of the most productive wetlands of the Great Lakes, the marshes at the mouth of the Don River were rap- idly degraded by...Read more

For centuries, the Lenape inhabited the area at the conflu- ence of the Hudson and East Rivers. In the early 17th century Dutch settlers built...Read more

Located in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California, Treasure Island is a constructed island created between 1936 - 1937. The island...Read more

False Creek was an important hub for the lumber industry in Vancouver. By 1891, six out of eight saw mills were located in False Creek...Read more

The Ile Notre-Dame began as a small, rocky island claimed by Guillaume Vignal in 1661. During the mid 19th-century, the island acted as an important...Read more

Steep slopes and limited developable land within its territori- al geography have historically driven the extension of Hong Kong’s shoreline. Land reclamation projects can be...Read more