An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline , such as a small arm , cove , bay , sound , fjord , lagoon or marsh , that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake , estuary , gulf or marginal sea .
4-606: Esperanza Inlet is an inlet on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia , Canada. Its entrance is located off the northwest side of Nootka Island and is defined by a line drawn from Tachu Point to Blind Reef. Until that definition was applied by the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1959, the inlet's entrance was considered to be the area southeast of Catala Island . Among its adjoining branches
8-404: Is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals , e.g., Portland Canal , Lynn Canal , Hood Canal , and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel . Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets. On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate barrier islands and can form as
12-606: Is Zeballos Inlet . Originally charted as "Hope Bay" by Captain James Cook , defining its opening as being between "Breakers Point" ( Estevan Point ) and Woody Point ( Cape Cook ). This name was adapted into Spanish by Alessandro Malaspina whose officers, José Espinosa y Tello [ es ] and Ciriaco Ceballos (the namesake of Zeballos Inlet ), explored this inlet in 1791. 49°51′30″N 126°54′00″W / 49.85833°N 126.90000°W / 49.85833; -126.90000 Inlet In marine geography ,
16-494: 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 and also in montane lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds , e.g., Puget Sound , Howe Sound , Karmsund ( sund
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