St. Lucia Estuary, South Africa

Credit: NASA, Posted on: Monday, 8 November 2004, 09:30 CST Download full size image

The Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park is a United Nations World Heritage Site located on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa near the borders with Mozambique and Swaziland. The park encompasses several different conservation areas (marked with yellow lines) centered on Lake St. Lucia, its tidal estuary, neighboring game reserves, and the St. Lucia Marine Reserve, which extends offshore into the Mozambique Strait (image right). The oldest of the reserves within this park, St. Lucia Game Reserve, was established in 1895. The image above was created from data collected by the Landsat 7 satellite’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument.

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