The water-bordered 18th hole is a notoriously tough finisher and players each year dunk dozens of balls in the lake surrounding the 17th hole's island green (40 balls took a dive last year, 93 in 2007).

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The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad.

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With the Winter Olympics under way, one thing is clear: Big money is at play for two weeks on the slopes surrounding Salt Lake City.

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The lake and surrounding Washoe Indian territory were first seen by the explorer John C.

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In the dry landscape surrounding Lake Malawi, there are precious few options.

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But Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed in a devastating surge of water from the Gulf of Mexico that overwhelmed the city's system of levees built to hold back the surrounding Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.

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Lake Placid and the surrounding Adirondack Mountains see the majority of visitors between May and October, but that doesn't mean that the area is lacking when the weather gets colder.

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In Lake Elsinore, California, surrounding Riverside County, the situation is improving but still pretty bad.

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The warming climate and modern farming practices are creating ideal conditions for gigantic algae formations on Lake Erie, which could be potentially disastrous to the surrounding area's multi-billion-dollar tourist economy.

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