List of brackish bodies of water explained

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

• Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea)
• Black Sea
• Hudson Bay and James Bay
• Salish Sea
• Ariake Sea

Brackish lakes

Africa

• Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia

Americas

• Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
• Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
• Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada^[1]
• Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
• Lake Monroe in Florida, United States
• Lake Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

Asia

• Caspian Sea
• Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
• Pangong Tso Ladakh, India
• Lake Van, in eastern Turkey
• Lake Shinji in Japan
• Lake Hamana in Japan
• Lake Saroma in Japan
• Chilika Lake in India

Europe

• Loch of Stenness in Scotland
• Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
• Lake Vouliagmeni located south of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece

Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas

Africa

• Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
• Lake Burullus in the Nile Delta, Egypt

Americas

• Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States
• Budi Lake in Araucanía, Chile
• Indian River Lagoon in Florida, United States
• Lagoa dos Patos in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
• Laguna de Términos in Campeche, Mexico
• Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
• Simpson Bay Lagoon on the island of Saint Martin
• Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County, California

Asia

• Chilika Lake in Odisha, India
• Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
• The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
• Muthupet Lagoon in Tamil Nadu, India
• Pulicat Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India
• The Rann of Kutch between Gujarat, India and Sindh, Pakistan

Europe

• The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
• The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England
• Loch Etive in Scotland^[2]
• Loch Long in Scotland^[3]
• Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: an area known as the Camargue
• Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England

Oceania

• Kiritimati Lagoon in Kiribati
• Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora in Canterbury, New Zealand

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
• Great Bay, an extension of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 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
• Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada
• Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States (also the only known place in the world where jubilees regularly occur [see [[Mobile Bay Jubilee]]])
• Port Royal Sound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, The Lowcountry Estuarium – Estuary, Marsh, & Creek Life – South Carolina Coast^[4]
• Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
• Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.^[5]
• 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
• The Tagus Estuary near Lisbon, Portugal
• The Reversing Falls of the Saint John River, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

See also

• List of bodies of water by salinity

Notes and References

1. Last. William M.. Slezak. Laurie A.. 1988. The salt lakes of western Canada: A paleolimnological overview. Hydrobiologia. 158. 301–316. 10.1007/BF00026286 . 21394879 . cc.umanitoba.ca.
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-11-29 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208064026/http://www.gov.scot/seag/seagdocs/sea-00510/9851.pdf . 2015-12-08 .
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-11-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208064409/http://www.snh.gov.uk/docs/B1188323.pdf . 2015-12-08 .
4. Web site: Lowcountry Estuarium — Window on the Waters. lowcountryestuarium.org. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150710184752/http://lowcountryestuarium.org/. 2015-07-10.
5. Book: Seeliger, Ulrich. Björn Kjerfve . Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. 2001. Springer. 978-3-540-67228-9. 185–204 .