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From: Bill Stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: bay vs. sound <fwd>
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What about a "fjord", such as Limfjord in Denmark, which is a long, narrow
body of water dividing a mainland (Jutland) from an island (Vendsyssel), and
not an inlet of the sea or a sunken rivermouth, as a fjord is normally
described as. Another Danish fjord is Ringkjøbing Fjord which is actually a
"nerungen", although there is also a river delta involved.
It would be much more consequent if geomorphologists wrote the placenames -
but perhaps not so interesting.


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> From: Johnnie Sutherland [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:04:02 -0800
> From: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: bay vs. sound
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>
> We just had a patron who wanted to know why Puget Sound is Puget Sound,
> and
> not Puget Bay -- comparing especially with Chesapeake Bay and San
> Francisco
> Bay, which seem to have a similar geographic outlay to Puget Sound (long,
> skinny bodies of water connected to the ocean).
> Varying definitions say (Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
> ©
> 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.):
>
> sound \Sound\, n. [AS. sund a narrow sea or strait; akin to Icel., Sw.,
> Dan.
> & G. sund, probably so named because it could be swum across. See Swim.]
> (Geog.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an
> island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake
> with
> the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long
> Island Sound.
>
> bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie, fr. LL. baia. Of uncertain origin: cf. Ir. & Gael.
> badh or bagh bay harbor, creek; Bisc. baia, baiya, harbor, and F. bayer to
> gape, open the mouth.] 1. (Geol.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller
> than
> a gulf, but of the same general character.
>
> Note: The name is not used with much precision, and is often applied to
> large tracts of water, around which the land forms a curve; as, Hudson's
> Bay. The name is not restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance,
> but is used for any recess or inlet between capes or headlands; as, the
> Bay
> of Biscay.
>
> We've hopped around a US map, looking at other bays and sounds, and we
> can't
> see a definitive difference (although we haven't compared depths). Other
> than saying "the naming of geographic features is a subjective art," do
> any
> of you know of a source with a better explanation?
>
> Jenny Stone Muilenburg
> Geographic Information Systems Librarian
> Map Collection, University of Washington Libraries
> Box 352900   Seattle, WA 98195-2900
> phone: 206.543.2725
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