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» This article is about natural lagoons. For other uses of lagoon
please see Lagoon (disambiguation).lagoon is a body of comparatively
salt or
brackish water separated from the deeper
sea by a shallow or exposed
sandbank,
coral reef, or similar feature. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a
barrier reef or
barrier islands or enclosed by an
atoll reef is called a
lagoon. This application of
lagoon in
English dates from 1769. It adapted and extended the sense of the Venetian
laguna (
cf Latin, 'empty space'), which specifically referred to
Venice's shallow, island-studded stretch of saltwater, protected from the
Adriatic by the
barrier beaches of the
Lido (
see Venetian Lagoon).
Lagoon refers to both coastal lagoons formed by the build-up of sandbanks or reefs along shallow coastal waters, and the lagoons in atolls, formed by the growth of coral reefs on slowly sinking central islands. Lagoons that are fed by freshwater streams are also called
estuaries.
Albemarle Sound in
North Carolina,
Great South Bay, between Long Island and the barrier beaches of
Fire Island in
New York,
Banana River in
Florida and
Lake Illawarra in
New South Wales are all lagoons. In the UK there are lagoons at
Montrose, (Scotland) and
Tywyn, (Wales), whilst the expanse of water inside
Chesil Beach, England, known as
The Fleet, could also be described as a lagoon. There is also one near the small town of
Dingle in Western Ireland. Some of the famous lagoons in
India are the
Chilika Lake in
Orissa, near
Puri, and the
Vembanad Lake in Kerala. Both are connected to the Bay of Bengal and the
Arabian Sea respectively through a narrow channel.
In Latin America often the use of "laguna", which lagoon translates to, is used to describe a lake, such as
Laguna Catemaco.
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