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      <title>Liaodong Bay: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every winter, ice creeps south across Liaodong Bay. Thin sheets form first along the shallow northern shores, then thicken into floes that grind against one another, choking shipping lanes and testing the mettle of mariners who depend on these waters year-round. It is a dramatic seasonal transformation for a body of water that spends its warmer months as one of the most ecologically productive bays in all of China, fed by the silt-laden outflows of five major rivers and teeming with the biodiversity that such nutrient-rich convergences produce.]]></description>
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      <title>Liaodong Bay: The Bohai&apos;s Northern Arm</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Liaodong Bay is the largest and longest of the three main inlets of the Bohai Sea, itself the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. To the south lies Laizhou Bay; to the southwest, Bohai Bay. But Liaodong Bay dominates, stretching between the Laotieshan Cape at Dalian's Lushunkou Dis...]]></description>
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      <title>Liaodong Bay: Where Rivers Meet the Sea</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What makes Liaodong Bay ecologically significant is the sheer volume of freshwater that pours into it. The Luan River, Daling River, Xiaoling River, Liao River, and Daliao River all drain into these waters, carrying nutrients and sediment from the interior of northeast China. Thi...]]></description>
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      <title>Liaodong Bay: Ice and the Challenge of Winter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Liaodong Bay is the most ice-prone section of the Bohai Sea, and winter here transforms the seascape entirely. Sea ice typically begins forming in late November and can persist into March, with ice coverage sometimes extending across the entire bay. The severity varies from year ...]]></description>
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      <title>Liaodong Bay: An Island-Mountain in the Shallows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rising from the bay's waters stands Bijia Mountain, one of the more unusual landmarks along China's coast. This island-mountain is connected to the mainland by a natural tidal causeway that appears and disappears with the rhythm of the tides -- a phenomenon that has drawn visitor...]]></description>
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