A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean , a lake , or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf , sea , sound , or bight . A cove is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A fjord is an elongated bay formed by glacial action. The term embayment is also used for related features , such as extinct bays or freshwater environments.
6-655: Portlligat is a small village located in a small bay on Cap de Creus peninsula , on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean Sea , in the municipality of Cadaqués in the Alt Empordà comarca , in Catalonia , Spain . The island of Portlligat is located at the entrance of the bay, separated from the mainland by a narrow 30-metre-wide canal. It gathered world attention after surrealist painter Salvador Dalí moved to live in
12-441: A bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves . Bays may have as wide a variety of shoreline characteristics as other shorelines. In some cases, bays have beaches , which "are usually characterized by a steep upper foreshore with a broad, flat fronting terrace". Bays were significant in the history of human settlement because they provided easy access to marine resources like fisheries . Later they were important in
18-453: A bay unless its area is as large as (or larger than) that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation — otherwise it would be referred to as a bight . There are various ways in which bays can form. The largest bays have developed through plate tectonics . As the super-continent Pangaea broke up along curved and indented fault lines, the continents moved apart and left large bays; these include
24-573: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bay A bay can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay , an estuary of the Susquehanna River . Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada . Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology . The land surrounding
30-521: The development of sea trade as the safe anchorage they provide encouraged their selection as ports . The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines a bay as a well-marked indentation in the coastline, whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation, however, shall not be regarded as
36-569: The village. Now his house has been converted into the Salvador Dalí House Museum . Both the bay and the island have been represented in several of Dalí's paintings, such as The Madonna of Port Lligat , Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) , and The Sacrament of the Last Supper . 42°17′37.51″N 3°17′7.22″E / 42.2937528°N 3.2853389°E / 42.2937528; 3.2853389 This article related to Catalonia
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