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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.
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.
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
Puget Sound (/ ˈ p juː dʒ ɪ t / PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) [1] [2] is a complex estuarine [5] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
A landform at the mouth of a river where the main stem splits up into several distributaries. It is formed from the deposition of the sediment carried by the river as the flow leaves the mouth of the river. Compare estuary. [5] The Skokomish River delta in the northwestern United States, where the river flows into Puget Sound demilitarized zone ...
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.
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic [1] [2] land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain , and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography .
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.