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An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
, bay, lagoon
Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
 or marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean
Ocean

An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
 and is often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake or river. A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a fjord
Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes.

Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
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An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
, bay, lagoon
Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
 or marsh
Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean
Ocean

An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
 and is often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake or river. A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a fjord
Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes.

Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
s, e.g. Puget Sound
Puget Sound

Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
, Howe Sound
Howe Sound

Howe Sound is a roughly triangular sound , actually a network of fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver....
, Karmsund
Karmsund

Karmsund is a strait dividing Karm?y and Haugesund municipally in western Norway. The Karmsund Bridge linking Karm?y to the mainland was completed in 1955....
 (sund is Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
 for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e.g. Portland Canal
Portland Canal

The Portland Canal is an arm of Portland Inlet, one of the principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast. The Portland Canal forms part of the border between southeastern Alaska and British Columbia....
, Lynn Canal
Lynn Canal

The Lynn Canal is an inlet into the mainland of southeast Alaska.The Lynn Canal runs about 90 miles from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage....
, Hood Canal
Hood Canal

Hood Canal is a fjord off Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is sometimes considered to be one of the four main basins of Puget Sound....
, and some are channels, e.g. Dean Channel
Dean Channel

Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest fjords of the British Columbia Coast, from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. The Dean River, one of the main rivers of the Coast Mountains and one of the few rivers to pierce that range from the Chilcotin District, enters Dean Channel about below the head of the inlet, at the...
, Douglas Channel
Douglas Channel

Douglas Channel is one of the principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast. Its official length from the head of Kitimat Arm, where the aluminum smelter town of Kitimat, British Columbia to Wright Sound, on the Inside Passage ferry route, is 90 km ....
.

See also

  • Fjord
    Fjord

    Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
  • British Columbia Coast
    British Columbia Coast

    The British Columbia Coast is Canada's western continental coastlines.In a sense excluding the urban Lower Mainland area adjacent to the Canada ? United States border, which is considered "The Coast," the British Columbia Coast refers to one of British Columbia's three main regions, the others being the Lower Mainland and British Columbia...
  • Alaska Panhandle
    Alaska Panhandle

    The Alaska Panhandle, sometimes referred to as Southeast Alaska, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, which lies just west of the northern half of the Provinces and territories of Canada of British Columbia....
  • Inside Passage
    Inside Passage

    The Inside Passage of the Alaska Panhandle and coastal British Columbia is a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a series of passages between the mainland and the coastal islands....
  • Hood Canal
    Hood Canal

    Hood Canal is a fjord off Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is sometimes considered to be one of the four main basins of Puget Sound....


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