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  2. Sound (geography) - Wikipedia

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    In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord ; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait ; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland.

  3. List of sounds (geography) - Wikipedia

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    Ballycotton Sound, that separate the islands from the mainland; Aran Islands. North Sound / An Súnda ó Thuaidh (more accurately Bealach Locha Lurgan) lies between Inishmore and Lettermullen, County Galway. Gregory's Sound / Súnda Ghríoghóra (formerly known as Bealach na h-Áite) lies between Inishmore and Inishmaan.

  4. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Sound – A long, relatively wide body of water, connecting two larger bodies of water Spit – Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift Strait – Naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water

  5. Fjord - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this confused usage follow. In the Danish language some inlets are called a fjord, but are, according to the English language definition, technically not a fjord, such as Roskilde Fjord. Limfjord in English terminology is a sound, since it separates the North Jutlandic Island (Vendsyssel-Thy) from the rest of Jutland. However, the ...

  6. Landform - Wikipedia

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    Examples are mountains, hills, polar caps, and valleys, which are found on all of the terrestrial planets. The scientific study of landforms is known as geomorphology. In onomastic terminology, toponyms (geographical proper names) of individual landform objects (mountains, hills, valleys, etc.) are called oronyms. [4]

  7. Inlet - Wikipedia

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    An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, [1] that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

  8. Fjard - Wikipedia

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    The fjard of Somes Sound, Maine, USA. A fjard (Swedish: fjärd, IPA:) is a large open space of water between groups of islands or mainland in archipelagos. Fjards can be found along sea coasts, in freshwater lakes or in rivers. Fjard and fjord were originally the same word, and they generally meant sailable waterway.

  9. Bay - Wikipedia

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    Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada. Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology. [citation needed] The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves. Bays may have as wide a variety of shoreline ...