bay or inlet
C35838
concept
A bay or inlet is a recessed coastal body of water partially enclosed by land, typically with a wider opening to the sea than a harbor but more sheltered than the open ocean.
Observed surface forms (18)
- marine inlet ×3
- tidal bay ×3
- coastal inlet system ×1
- estuarine inlet ×1
- fjard-like inlet ×1
- former sea inlet ×1
- harbourside inlet ×1
- hypersaline bay ×1
- lagoon-like bay ×1
- natural coastal inlet ×1
- ocean inlet ×1
- part of sea ×1
- proglacial bay ×1
- saltwater inlet ×1
- semi-enclosed brackish sea ×1
- semi-enclosed inlet ×1
- tropical fjord-like gulf ×1
- бухта ×1
Instances (23)
- Hamersley Inlet via concept surface "estuarine inlet"
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Porsáŋgguvuotna (Northern Sami)
surface form: Porsáŋgguvuotna
- Золотой Рог via concept surface "бухта"
- Minas Basin via concept surface "tidal bay"
- Northern Caspian via concept surface "part of sea"
- Western Port via concept surface "tidal bay"
- Absecon Bay via concept surface "tidal bay"
- Jiaozhou Bay via concept surface "semi-enclosed inlet"
- St. Lucie Inlet via concept surface "ocean inlet"
- Schaproder Bodden via concept surface "lagoon-like bay"
- Inlets of New York (state) via concept surface "coastal inlet system"
- Zuiderzee via concept surface "former sea inlet"
- Hamelin Pool via concept surface "hypersaline bay"
- Chowder Bay via concept surface "harbourside inlet"
- Port Townsend Bay via concept surface "marine inlet"
- Columbia Bay via concept surface "proglacial bay"
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Holocene Baltic Sea stages
via concept surface "semi-enclosed brackish sea"
surface form: Modern Baltic Sea
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fjard-like Somes Sound
via concept surface "fjard-like inlet"
surface form: Fjard-like Somes Sound
- Masset Inlet via concept surface "saltwater inlet"
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Placentia harbour
via concept surface "natural coastal inlet"
surface form: Placentia Harbour
- Eld Inlet via concept surface "marine inlet"
- Sogod Bay via concept surface "marine inlet"
- Golfo Dulce via concept surface "tropical fjord-like gulf"