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Everything about Sound Geography totally explainedIn geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).
There is little consistency in the use of 'sound' in English-language place names.
Traditionally in northern European usage, the Sound is the Øresund, the strait that separates Denmark (the outermost Danish island being Sjælland) and Sweden, the narrow channel (2.5 miles or 4 kilometers wide) that connects the Kattegat with the Baltic Sea. In areas explored by the British in the late 18th Century, particularly the northwest coast of North America, the term 'sound' was applied to inlets containing large islands ( Puget Sound, Howe Sound for example).
In the United States, Long Island Sound separates Long Island from the coast of Connecticut, but on the Atlantic Ocean side of Long Island, the body of water between the ocean and its barrier beaches is termed the Great South Bay. Pamlico Sound is a similar lagoon that lies between North Carolina and its barrier beaches, the Outer Banks, in a similar situation. The Mississippi Sound separates the Gulf of Mexico from the mainland along much of the gulf coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. On the West Coast, Puget Sound, by contrast, is a deep arm of the ocean.
A sound is often formed by the sea flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are a good example of this type of formation.
Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on the coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley. The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical, sides that extend deep under water. The sea floor is often flat and deeper at the landward end than the seaward end, due to glacial moraine deposits. This type of sound is more properly termed a fjord (or fiord). The sounds in Fiordland, New Zealand, have been formed this way.
A sound generally connotes a protected anchorage.
Etymology
The word "sound" in this sense came from Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse sund, which also means " swimming"; it may have originally meant "sea strait narrow enough for a man to swim across".
Bodies of water called sounds
Exuma Sound, bordered by Eleuthera, Cat Island and Great Exuma, among others
Millars Sound, New Providence
Rock Sound, Eleuthera
The Sound, Bimini
Great Sound towards the archipelago's southwest end
Calf Sound between Isle of Man and the Calf of Man
Clestrain Sound at the west of Mainland Orkney, Scotland
Eynhallow Sound separating Rousay from Mainland Orkney
North Sound, Virgin Gorda
South Sound, Virgin Gorda
Baynes Sound between Denman Island and Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Clayoquot Sound in Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island's east coast
Desolation Sound between the Discovery Islands and the coast of British Columbia.
Eclipse Sound between Baffin Island and Bylot Island in Nunavut
Eureka Sound between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut
Hamilton Sound between Fogo Island and the Island of Newfoundland
Howe Sound, an inlet which forms the harbour of Vancouver, British Columbia
Jones Sound between Devon Island and Ellesmere Island in Nunavut
Kyuquot Sound, Barkley Sound and Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Lancaster Sound between Devon Island and Baffin Island in Nunavut
Long Island Sound between Long Island in Nunavut, and Québec(External Link )
Massey Sound between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut
Nansen Sound between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut
Owen Sound in Ontario
Parry Sound in Ontario
Peel Sound between Prince of Wales Island and Somerset Island in Nunavut
Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia
Random Sound near Clarenville in Newfoundland and Labrador
Roes Welcome Sound between Southampton Island and Hudson Bay's west shore in Nunavut
Viscount Melville Sound between Banks Island and Melville Island in Nunavut
Frank Sound on Grand Cayman
North Sound on Grand Cayman
Adventure Sound in East Falkland
Berkeley Sound in East Falkland
Byron Sound in West Falkland
Choiseul Sound in East Falkland
Falkland Sound between East Falkland and West Falkland
Campeche Sound in Campeche
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand in South Island
Marlborough Sounds in South Island
Milford Sound in South Island
The Sound, another name for Oresund, a body of water between Sweden and Denmark
New Georgia Sound
Albemarle Sound in North Carolina
Block Island Sound between Long Island, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island
Bogue Sound in North Carolina
Breton Sound in Louisiana
Calibogue Sound in South Carolina
Core Sound in North Carolina
Chatham Sound in Alaska
Croatan Sound in North Carolina
Currituck Sound in North Carolina
Kotzebue Sound in Alaska
Long Island Sound between Long Island, New York and Connecticut
Mississippi Sound in Mississippi and Alabama
Nantucket Sound off Nantucket, Massachusetts
Norton Sound in Alaska
Pamlico Sound in North Carolina
Pine Island Sound near Cape Coral, Florida
Prince William Sound in Alaska
Puget Sound in Washington
Rhode Island Sound off Rhode Island
Roanoke Sound in North Carolina
Somes Sound in Mount Desert Island, Maine (truly a fjord)
Suwanee Sound off Florida
Vineyard Sound off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Pillsbury Sound between Saint Thomas and Saint JohnFurther Information
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