List of bogs

Luhasoo bog in Estonia. The mire has tussocks of heather, and is being colonised by pine trees.

This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss.^[1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.

Locations of bogs

Europe

Estonia

Emajõe-Suursoo - a large swampland around the river Emajõgi
Kakerdaja bog - in Albu Parish
Kuresoo bog in Soomaa National Park - a largest bog in Estonia ("Soomaa" means "Bogland")
Nigula Bog - a nature reserve in Pärnu County, Estonia
Viru Bog - a bog in Lahemaa National Park in Harju County, Estonia
Puhatu bog - a vast swamp area located in Ida-Viru County

Czech Republic

Modravské Slatě - a bog in the Šumava region of the Czech Republic
Rejvíz - a Moravian-Silesian peat bog with small lakes in the Czech Republic

Germany

Bornrieth Moor - an old peat bog in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony
Bullenkuhle
Großes Moor (lake) - a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in East Germany
Großes Moor (near Becklingen) - a moor on the Lüneburg Heath near Becklingen
Großes Moor (near Gifhorn) - a raised peat bog near Gifhorn in Lower Saxony
Großes Torfmoor - a raised peat bog in the northeast of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
Grundloses Moor
Kiehnmoor
Lütt-Witt Moor - a bog in Henstedt-Ulzburg in northern Germany
Maujahn Moor - a kettle bog near Dannenberg in Lower Saxony
Oppenweher Moor
Ostenholz Moor
Pietzmoor
Teufelsmoor
Thorsberg moor - a bog near Süderbrarup in Anglia, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Tiste Bauernmoor
Vehmsmoor

Ireland

Bog of Allen - a large peat bog in the centre of the Ireland
Boora Bog - cutaway peat bog in County Offaly, Ireland
Clara Bog - a raised bog in County Offaly, Ireland
Raheenmore Bog - a raised bog in County Offaly, Ireland

Scandinavia

Lille Vildmose - a peat bog near Aalborg, Denmark
Bockstens Mosse - a bog in Halland County, Sweden
Borremose - a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark.
Hirvisuo Bog - a bog near Oulu, Finland
Laponian area - the mires in Sjaunja Nature Reserve, Muddus National Park and Stubba Nature Reserve, part of the Laponian area, together form one of Europe's largests bogs, Sweden
Store Mosse - national park with the largest boggy grounds south of Lapland, Sweden
Tavvavuoma - arctic tundra with palsa mires, considered to be national park, Sweden

Switzerland

List of raised and transitional bogs of Switzerland

United Kingdom

Astley and Bedford Mosses - peat located in Astley, Greater Manchester
Ballynahone Bog - a raised bog and the largest in Northern Ireland
Carrington Moss - peat bog located in Trafford, Greater Manchester
Chat Moss - peat bog located in Salford, Greater Manchester
Cors Caron - peat bog near Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales
Cors Fochno - peat bog near Borth, Ceredigion, Wales
Crymlyn Bog - a nature reserve near Swansea, Wales
Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses - a national nature reserve which straddles the border between England and Wales
Flanders Moss - a national nature reserve and the largest lowland raised bog in Britain; west of Stirling, Scotland
Flow Country - the largest expanse of blanket bog in Europe - Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland
Lenzie Moss -a boggy, marshy area that has not been built on.
Lindow Moss - an ancient peat bog west of Wilmslow, Cheshire, Uk. Bog body of Lindow Man was discovered there in 1983
Matley Bog - an ancient woodland bog in the New Forest, Hampshire, England
Max Bog - a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of the village of Winscombe, Avon, in England
Migneint - a large expanse of Blanket Bog in Southern Snowdonia in Wales
Moine Mhor ("Great Moss") - a national nature reserve managed by Scottish Natural Heritage near Kilmartin, Scotland
Moseley Bog - a nature reserve in the Moseley area of Birmingham in England
Portlethen Moss - a nature reserve in northeast Scotland
Red Moss of Netherley - a bog in Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Red Moss - a wetland bog located in Horwich, Greater Manchester
Rannoch Moor - an expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland
Wem Moss - an almost pristine part of the same British moss complex as Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses, but isolated from them by agricultural land
Yanal Bog - a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern edge of the North Somerset Levels in England

Americas

Alfred Bog - a dome bog in eastern Ontario, Canada sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario
Black Spruce Bog Natural Area - a national natural landmark in Michigan's Waterloo State Recreation Area
Big Bog State Recreation Area - a recent addition to the Minnesota state park system
The Bog Garden - a nature preserve, botanical garden, and city park located in Greensboro, North Carolina
Burns Bog - in British Columbia, the largest domed peat bog in North America
Cranberry Glades - Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Heath Pond Bog - a sphagnum bog in Ossipee New Hampshire
Ink Blot Natural Area Preserve - a sphagnum bog in Western Washington
Johnville Bog & Forest Park - Sherbrooke Quebec, a sphagnum bog
Joseph Pines Preserve - a Longleaf Pine and pitcher plant/sphagnum bog nature preserve in southern Virginia
Kennedy River Bog Provincial Park - a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
Massawepie Mire - the largest peatland in New York
Mer Bleue Conservation Area - a sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario
Minden Bog - 9,000 acre raised bog, Sanilac County, Michigan
Pinhook Bog - a nature preserve in northwest Indiana, a part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Rhine Center Bog, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Spruce Hole Bog - a complete ecological community occupying a true kettle hole in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Tannersville Cranberry Bog - A sphagnum bog in Pennsylvania
Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve - A 42-acre (170,000 m²) bog in Kent in Ohio.
Saco Heath Preserve - a nature preserve in Saco, Maine
Strangmoor Bog - a national natural landmark in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Sifton Bog in London, Ontario
Volo Bog - a nature preserve in Illinois

Asia

The world's largest peat bog, located in Western Siberia, is thawing for the first time in 11,000 years (see Peat#Environmental and ecological issues)

References

↑ Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.