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A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight.
Bay at Castletown, Isle of Man
Bay of Baracoa, Cuba
Two adjacent bays at San Sebastián, Spain, one semi-enclosed (left, with an island at the mouth) and one open (right)
In United States v. Maine (1985), the 110-kilometre-long (68 mi) Long Island Sound was ruled a juridicial bay by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gulf of Mexico
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The Gulf of Mexico is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coa
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…large, highly indented navigable bodies of salt water that are enclosed by the coastline. Many gulfs are major shipping areas, such as the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Finland, and Gulf of Aden. Bays form variously by plate tectonics, coastal erosion by rivers, and glaciers…
The Harbor at Galveston, by Verner Moore White (1863–1923)
Ship and oil rigs in the gulf (2002)
Cantarell Field (2015)
Sediment-laden water pours into the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Atchafalaya River (2009)