List of bogs

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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. 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
• Grundloser See
• 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
• 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
• 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[1]
• 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 [2]
• 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[3]
• 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)

See also

• Differences between bogs and other wetlands
  • Muskeg
  • Fen
• Bog body
• Bog iron
• Bog snorkelling

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