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- noun Alternative spelling of
salt pan .
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Examples
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Project: Classroom for the saltpan community, Cohesion Foundation
Cameron Sinclair: What is the classroom of the future? (hint. answers below) 2009
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Covering over 12,000 km2, it is one of the largest saltpan complexes in the world.
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Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica.
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The shadow of the town walls reached almost to the small group a few hundred meters out on the saltpan.
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_ The breaks in the saltpan exposed the waiting pukkawood seeds so that they could receive the elusive rain.
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Scattered groups of triple patches in the saltpan nearby testified to previous years 'congregational outings.
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Then the ground shook, the lightning cracks in the saltpan widening around the base of each cross.
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In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning.
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No more holes in the saltpan, no more disruption to my town.
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Filtered through the squall, the sunlight scattered on the saltpan was muted, colored differently than she had ever seen it since coming to Drylands.
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