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4-677: Croatan Sound is an inlet in Dare County, North Carolina . It connects Pamlico Sound with Albemarle Sound , and is bordered to the east by Roanoke Island ; Roanoke Sound is on the other side of the island. Its name comes from the Croatan Indians who once inhabited the area. The Croatan Sound is crossed by two bridges, the older William B. Umstead Bridge , and the newer Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge , which carries U.S. Route 64 . U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Croatan Sound This article about
8-438: A location in Dare County , North Carolina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inlet 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 . In marine geography , the term "inlet" usually refers to either
12-404: 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
16-452: 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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