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Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water

Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in estuary, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers....
separated from the deeper sea

SEA

See also: Sea and seasThe three-letter acronym SEA may refer to:People/organizations/businesses*Scientists and Engineers for America, a pro-science political advocacy group....
by a shallow or exposed sandbank

Bar (landform)

A shoal or sandbar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles....
, coral reef

Reef

In nautical terminology, a reef is a Rock , bar , or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water .Many reefs result from abiotic processes?deposition of sand, wave erosion planning down rock outcrops, and other natural processes?but the best-known reefs are the coral reefs of tropical waters developed through biotic processes do...
, or similar feature. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef

Reef

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
reef is called a lagoon.

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A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water

Brackish water

SEA

Bar (landform)

A shoal or sandbar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles....
, coral reef

Reef

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
reef is called a lagoon. This application of lagoon in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
dates from 1769. It adapted and extended the sense of the Venetian laguna (cf Latin lacuna, ‘empty space’), which specifically referred to Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
’s shallow, island-studded stretch of saltwater, protected from the Adriatic

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges....
by the barrier beaches

Bar (landform)

A shoal or sandbar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles....
of the Lido

Lido

Venice's Lido is an 11-mile long bar , home to about 20,000 residents, greatly augmented by the tourists who move in every summer. The Venice film festival takes place at the Lido every September....
(see Venetian Lagoon
Venetian Lagoon

The Venetian Lagoon is the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Venetian language language, Laguna Veneta? cognate of Latin lacus, "lake"? has provided the international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of saltwater, a lagoon....
). Lagoon refers to both coastal lagoons formed by the build-up of sandbanks or reefs along shallow coastal waters, and the lagoons in atolls, formed by the growth of coral reefs on slowly sinking central islands. Lagoons that are fed by freshwater streams are also called estuaries

Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
.

Many lagoons do not include "lagoon" in their common names. Albemarle Sound

Albemarle Sound

Albemarle Sound is a large estuary on the coast of North Carolina in the United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan River and Roanoke River....
in North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
, Great South Bay

Great South Bay

The Great South Bay is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 45 mi long, forming a large natural harbor on the southern side of Long Island in the U.S....
, between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island

Fire Island, New York

Fire Island is one of Long Island's south shore outer barrier islands, approximately 31 miles long and varying between approximately 0.1 mile to 0.25 mile wide....
in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
; Isle of Wight Bay

Isle of Wight Bay

Isle of Wight Bay is a lagoon that separates part of mainland Worcester County, Maryland from the southern part of Ocean City, Maryland, also in Worcester County....
, which separates Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, sometimes known as OC, is an Atlantic Ocean resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, Maryland, United States. Ocean City is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is a frequent destination for vacationers....
from the rest of Worcester County, Maryland

Worcester County, Maryland

Worcester County is the easternmost county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. The county contains the entire length of the state's Atlantic coast line....
; Banana River

Banana River

The Banana River is a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island, Florida in Brevard County, Florida in the United States. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, and connects at its south end to the Indian River ; it is the only part of the lagoon system not in the Intracoastal Waterway....
in Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
; and Lake Illawarra

Lake Illawarra

Lake Illawarra is a large coastal lagoon, near the city of Wollongong about 100 km south of Sydney, New South Wales.The towns of Dapto and Shellharbour, New South Wales are near the lake, which receives the runoff from the Illawarra escarpment through the Macquarie Rivulet....
in New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
are all lagoons, despite their names. In the UK there are lagoons at Montrose Basin

Montrose Basin

The Montrose Basin is part of the estuary of the River Esk, Angus forming a tidal basin near to the town of Montrose, Angus, Angus, on the north-east coast of Scotland....
, (Scotland) and Broad Water

Broad Water

Broad Water, or Broadwater, is a salt water lagoon near Tywyn, Wales, formed from the silted up estuary of the River Dysynni. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the estuary was used by the shipbuilding industry, as small sailing ships were launched to carry peat from the local peat bogs....
near Tywyn

Tywyn

Tywyn is a town and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd , in north Wales. The name derives from the Welsh tywyn and the town is sometimes referred to as Tywyn Meirionnydd....
, (Wales), whilst the expanse of water inside Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England. is one of three major Shingle beach in Britain, often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a Shoal which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with Portland Bill, giving the appearance...
, England, known as The Fleet

The Fleet

The Fleet may refer to:*A nickname for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom*Fleet Prison, London*The Fleet Lagoon at Chesil Beach, Dorset*A nickname for Ebbsfleet United F.C., formerly Gravesend & Northfleet F.C., an English football team...
, could also be described as a lagoon. There is also one near the small town of Dingle

Dingle

Dingle is a town in County Kerry in Republic of Ireland on the Atlantic Ocean coast some west-south-west of Tralee and west-north-west of Killarney....
in Western Ireland. Some of the famous lagoons in India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
are the Chilika Lake in Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , is a states and territories of India located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It was established on 1 April 1936 as a province in British India, and consists, predominantly of Oriya language speakers....
, near Puri

Puri

Puri is a city in the east Indian state of Orissa. The city is famous for its Jaganatha temple. The temple was built in the late eleventh century....
, and the Vembanad Lake

Vembanad Lake

Vembanad Lake is India's longest lake, and is the largest lake in the state of Kerala. It is also one of the largest lakes in India....
in Kerala. Both are connected to the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
respectively through a narrow channel.

In Latin America often the use of “laguna”, which lagoon translates to, is used to describe a lake, such as Laguna Catemaco

Laguna Catemaco

Laguna Catemaco is a lake located at the center of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in south central Veracruz, in east central Mexico. In English the word lagoon generally describes a body of water exposed to the sea....
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