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In marine geography, the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual channel between an enclosed bay and the open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines ...
a sea inlet loch. Sea lough: a fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet. Seep: a body of water formed by a spring. Slough: several different meanings related to wetland or aquatic features. Source: the original point from which the river or stream flows. A river's source is sometimes a spring. Shoal
Firth is a cognate of fjord, a Norse word meaning a narrow inlet. Forth stems from the name of the river; this is *vo-rit-ia ('slow running') in Proto-Celtic, yielding Foirthe in Old Gaelic and Gweryd in Welsh. [3] It was known as Bodotria in Roman times and was referred to as Βοδερία in Ptolemy's Geography. In the Norse sagas it was ...
In geography, an arm is a narrow extension, inlet, or smaller reach, of water flowing out from a much larger body of water, such as an ocean, a sea, or a lake. Although different geographically, a sound or bay may also be called an arm. Both the tributary and distributary of a river are sometimes called an "arm".
The long narrow fjords of Denmark's Baltic Sea coast like the German Förden were dug by ice moving from the sea upon land, while fjords in the geological sense were dug by ice moving from the mountains down to the sea. However, some definitions of a fjord is: "A long narrow inlet consisting of only one inlet created by glacial activity".
Tributary – a small river that flows into a larger one; Estuary – the piece of a river that flows into the sea or ocean; Strait – a narrow area of water connecting two wider areas of water, also sometimes known as a passage; Channel – usually wider than a strait; Passage – connects waters between islands, also sometimes known as a strait
Slaney: Irish meaning "river of health" Tay: Celtic river goddess Tawa (Tava, Tatha, "the silent one") [7] Tambre: From Tamaris with the same root that Tamar. Thames: Latin Tamesis from Brythonic meaning "dark river" The Thame and Tamar, and probably the three rivers called Tame, have a similar etymological root; Tyne: Brythonic meaning "river"
Narrows Inlet [1] formerly Narrows Arm [2] is a fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in British Columbia, Canada. [3] Its companion, Salmon Inlet, another side-inlet of Sechelt Inlet, lies roughly 10 km (6.2 mi) south. [4] About halfway up the inlet lies the Tzoonie Narrows site of Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park.