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"The Land of Trembling Earth",
The Great Okefenokee Swamp is the largest, intact and un-fragmented wetland wilderness swamp in North America.
Long before Europeans or their descendants discovered "The Land of Trembling Earth", the indigenous tribal peoples who lived in and around the Okefenokee held a fear and reverence for certain supernatural aspects of this swamp.
The Okefenokee is a vast bog inside a huge, saucer-shaped depression that was once part of the ocean floor. The swamp now lies 103 to 128 feet above mean sea level.
Native Americans named the area "Okefenokee" meaning "Land of the Trembling Earth". Peat deposits, up to 15 feet thick, cover much of the swamp floor.
These deposits are so unstable in spots that trees and surrounding bushes tremble by stomping the surface.
Okefenokee Swamp
Waycross, Ga.
"The Land of Trembling Earth",
The Great Okefenokee Swamp is the largest, intact and un-fragmented wetland wilderness swamp in North America.
Long before Europeans or their descendants discovered "The Land of Trembling Earth", the indigenous tribal peoples who lived in and around the Okefenokee held a fear and reverence for certain supernatural aspects of this swamp.
The Okefenokee is a vast bog inside a huge, saucer-shaped depression that was once part of the ocean floor. The swamp now lies 103 to 128 feet above mean sea level.
Native Americans named the area "Okefenokee" meaning "Land of the Trembling Earth". Peat deposits, up to 15 feet thick, cover much of the swamp floor.
These deposits are so unstable in spots that trees and surrounding bushes tremble by stomping the surface.
Okefenokee Swamp
Waycross, Ga.