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 .
3-796: Chilkoot Inlet is an inlet in the Southeast region of the U.S. state of Alaska , located on the eastern side of the Chilkat Peninsula in Lynn Canal . Chilkoot Inlet is the terminus of the Chilkoot River and its watershed, and also home to Lutak , Alaska . It was first charted in 1794 by Joseph Whidbey , master of HMS Discovery during George Vancouver 's 1791–1795 expedition . 59°13′33″N 135°21′28″W / 59.22583°N 135.35778°W / 59.22583; -135.35778 This article about
6-468: A location in the Haines Borough, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inlet 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
9-631: 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 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
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