Sound (geography)
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In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean
The Aldersund in Helgeland, Norway, separates the island of Aldra (left side) from the continent.
View over the Øresund (English: The Sound), from Helsingborg, Sweden
Long Island Sound in the New York metropolitan area, seen from space at night
Puget Sound, as seen from the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington
Long Island Sound
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Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York state to the south. Fr
Sound (geography)
…Along the east coast and Gulf Coast of the United States, a number of bodies of water that separate islands from the mainland are called "sounds". Long Island Sound separates Long Island from the eastern shores of the Bronx, Westchester County, and southern Connecticut. Similarly, in North Carolina, a number of…
Long Island Sound, highlighted in pink between Connecticut (to the north) and Long Island (to the south)
An aerial photo of the North Shore of Nassau County on Long Island, looking west. The Cow Neck Peninsula is visible in the center, with Manhasset Bay immediately above it and Hempstead Harbor immediately below it.
James Goodwyn Clonney, Fishing Party on Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, 1847