• Nakedmole
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    1211 months ago

    What distinguishes a bay from a sound? What is the difference between a channel and a strait?

    • @TastehWaffleZ
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      11 months ago

      According to quora, a bay is a body of water, coastal or otherwise, with a single connection to a single larger body of water while a sound is a coastal waterway that connects in two or more places to one or more bodies of water.

      • Nakedmole
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        711 months ago

        Interesting, that would make the depiction of a sound in the picture incorrect.

      • Aedis
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        211 months ago

        I’m not sure that’s correct though because then there would be no difference between sound and fjord. Also by that definition would the Puget Sound not be a sound?

        Fjord: Valley created by glacier flow that is the filled with water to create islands

        Sound: Natural Valley produced by underground movement filled with water to create islands

    • Aedis
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      111 months ago

      Are you asking cause this picture seems to say they are the same thing or because you want to know? Haha