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An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary
Bay at the Gulf of Salerno, Italy
The Jersey Shore extends inland from the Atlantic Ocean into its many inlets, including Manasquan Inlet, looking westward at sunset from the jetty at Manasquan, New Jersey, U.S.
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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.
Inlet
…An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. In marine geography, the…
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.