List of brackish bodies of water
Bodies of water of brackish nature are found around the world in a wide variety of settings, shapes and sizes. The following is a list of notable bodies of brackish water.
Brackish seas
Map of the Baltic Sea
- Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea)
- Black Sea
- Hudson Bay and James Bay
Brackish water lakes
Map of Lake Chilka, India's largest lake, classified as a brackish water body
- Caspian Sea
- Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the United States
- Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
- Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
- Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
- Lake Monroe in Florida, the United States
- Pangong Tso in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Lake Van
- Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
- Lake Vouliagmeni, South of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece
Lochs (Scottish)
- Loch Long
- Loch of Stenness
- Loch Bee
- Loch Obisary
- Loch an Duin
- Loch Scavaig
Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas
- Budi Lake, Chile
- The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
- Chilika Lake, Odisha, India
- The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England, the United Kingdom
- Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
- The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
- Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
- Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
- Pulicat Lake, Andhra Pradesh, north of Chennai, India
- The Rann of Kutch on the border of India and Pakistan
- Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: An area known as the Camargue
- Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England
- Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States
Estuaries
- Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of kilometres
- Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. It is the drowned river valley of the Susquehanna River. It is the largest estuary in the United States.
- Delaware Bay, an extension of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Delaware, the United States
- The Lower Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, the United States
- East River and Harlem River in New York, the United States
- Lingding Yang, Guangdong, China
- Port Royal Sound in Beaufort County, South Carolina, the United States
- Puget Sound in Washington state, the United States
- Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.[1]
- Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Quebec City and Saguenay respectively, Canada
- San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay adjacent to San Francisco in California, United States
- The Thames Estuary in South East England, United Kingdom
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References
- Seeliger, Ulrich; Björn Kjerfve (2001). Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. Springer. pp. 185–204. ISBN 978-3-540-67228-9.
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