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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 channel between two land masses, such as a strait ; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland.
Ballycotton Sound, that separate the islands from the mainland; Aran Islands. North Sound / An Súnda ó Thuaidh (more accurately Bealach Locha Lurgan) lies between Inishmore and Lettermullen, County Galway. Gregory's Sound / Súnda Ghríoghóra (formerly known as Bealach na h-Áite) lies between Inishmore and Inishmaan.
Sound is defined as "(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle displacement, particle velocity, etc., propagated in a medium with internal forces (e.g., elastic or viscous), or the superposition of such propagated oscillation.
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A wide variety of birdlife is apparent at Kotzebue Sound including the tufted puffin, black-throated diver and red-throated loon. [2]The sound is a location for the presence of the polar bear, Ursus maritimus; in fact, the world's record largest polar bear at 2,210 pounds (1,002 kg) was observed at Kotzebue Sound in 1960.
Sound, Cheshire; Sound, Lerwick in Shetland; Sound Heath, an area of common land in Sound, Cheshire; Milford Sound, a fjord in the South Island of New Zealand; Øresund or Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).
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Chatham Sound is characterized by lower salinity near-surface waters on its eastern side, transitioning to higher salinity near-surface waters on the western side. [ 2 ] Chatham Sound is an area of very large tides, with tidal ranges reaching peak values of 7.7 metres (25 ft) and an average tidal range of 4.9 metres (16 ft). [ 6 ]