An inlet is a narrow body between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon or marsh. In Geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean Inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a Fjord Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or Brackish water separated from the deeper Sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral In Geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of Wetland which is subject In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean and is often called an "entrance. An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. " A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. A fjord or fiord (fjɔːd|fiːɔːd or fiːɔːd is a long narrow Inlet with steep sides created in a valley carved by glacial activity.

Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds, e. In Geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean Inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a Fjord g. Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Karmsund (sund is Norwegian for "sound"). Puget Sound (ˈpjuːʤᵻt is an arm of the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest Howe Sound is a roughly triangular sound, actually a network of Fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver. Karmsund is a Strait dividing Karmøy and Haugesund municipally in western Norway Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e. g. Portland Canal, Lynn Canal, Hood Canal, and some are channels, e. The Portland Canal is an arm of Portland Inlet, one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. The Lynn Canal is an Inlet (not an artificial Canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska. Hood Canal is a Fjord off Puget Sound in the US state of Washington. g. Dean Channel, Douglas Channel. Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest inlets of the British Columbia Coast, from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. Douglas Channel is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast.

See also

• Fjord
• British Columbia Coast
• Alaska Panhandle
• Inside Passage

External links

• Coastal Inlets Research Program

A fjord or fiord (fjɔːd|fiːɔːd or fiːɔːd is a long narrow Inlet with steep sides created in a valley carved by glacial activity. The British Columbia Coast is Canada 's western continental coastlines The Alaska Panhandle, sometimes referred to as Southeast Alaska, is the southeastern portion of the U 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

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