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Bays

A body of water partially enclosed by land, larger than a cove and smaller than a gulf. Allows access to the sea.

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Nushagak Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Nushagak Bay is a large estuary in the southwest of the U.S. state of Alaska. It opens to Bristol Bay, a large body of water in the eastern Bering Sea north of the Alaska Peninsula.

Petrof Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Petrof Bay is a small bay on the west side of Kuiu Island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska, United States. It opens into the Chatham Strait.

Resurrection Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Resurrection Bay is a bay on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, United States. Its main settlement is Seward, located at the head of the bay.

Massacre Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Massacre Bay is an inlet on the southeast coast of the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

Naukati Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Naukati Bay is a bay located in Prince of Wales, Alaska.

Chincoteague Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Chincoteague Bay is a lagoon between the Atlantic barrier islands of Assateague and Chincoteague and the mainland of Worcester County, Maryland and northern Accomack County, Virginia. At the bay's ...

Cape Cod Bay

Water bodies; Bays

Cape Cod Bay is a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Measuring 604 square miles (1,560 km2) below a line drawn from Brant Rock in Marshfield to Race Point in ...

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