Okefenokee Swamp

[ oh-kuh-fuh-noh-kee ]

noun

1. a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.

Okefenokee Swamp

/ ˌəʊkɪfɪˈnəʊkɪ /

noun

1. a swamp in the US, in SE Georgia and N Florida: protected flora and fauna. Area: 1554 sq km (600 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is a pop culture icon, the home of Walt Kelly’s Pogo comic strip and the setting for many a Burt Reynolds movie.

From Ozy

This must be the Okefenokee Swamp, in the southeastern part of Georgia.

From Project Gutenberg

Directly before him loomed the forbidding northern boundary of the Okefenokee Swamp.

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After that things happened with a rapidity that must have startled the peaceful bird-life in the Okefenokee Swamp.

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"I feel as if the Okefenokee Swamp were my home," she remarked, as she headed the autogiro in that direction.

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She was getting to be an authority on the Okefenokee Swamp; she never need fear again being lost in its southern part, at least.

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