Inlet 496459 224217854 2008-07-07T21:14:39Z 24.184.197.105 First sentence: "body" -> "body of water". An '''inlet''' is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a [[Sound (geography)|sound]], [[bay (aquatic)|bay]], [[lagoon]] or [[marsh]]. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the [[ocean]] and is often called an "entrance." A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a [[fjord]], typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called [[sound (geography)|sound]]s, e.g. [[Puget Sound]], [[Howe Sound]], [[Karmsund]] (''sund'' is [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e.g. [[Portland Canal]], [[Lynn Canal]], [[Hood Canal]], and some are channels, e.g. [[Dean Channel]], [[Douglas Channel]]. ==See also== * [[Fjord]] * [[British Columbia Coast]] * [[Alaska Panhandle]] * [[Inside Passage]] ==External links== *[http://cirp.wes.army.mil/cirp/cirp.html Coastal Inlets Research Program] [[Category:Coastal geography]] {{wiktionarypar|inlet}} {{geo-term-stub}} [[de:Bucht]] [[ja:入り江]] [[nl:Inham]] [[ru:Бухта (география)]] [[sv:Bukt]] [[Category:Inlets|*]]