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(Top) 1 Brackish seas 2 Brackish lakes 2.1 Africa 2.2 Americas 2.3 Asia 2.4 Europe 3 Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas 3.1 Africa 3.2 Americas 3.3 Asia 3.4 Europe 3.5 Oceania 4 Estuaries 5 See also 6 References

List of brackish bodies of water

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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[edit]

Map of the Baltic Sea

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

Brackish lakes[edit]

Africa[edit]

Lake TurkanainKenya and Ethiopia

Americas[edit]

Bras d'Or LakeonCape Breton IslandinNova Scotia, Canada
Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
Lake CharlesinLake Charles, Louisiana, United States
Lake ManitobainManitoba, Canada^[1]
Lake MaracaiboinZulia State, Venezuela
Lake MonroeinFlorida, United States
Lake Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

Asia[edit]

Europe[edit]

Loch of StennessinScotland
Lake Mogil'noeonKildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
Lake Vouliagmeni located south of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece

Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas[edit]

Map of Lake Chilka, India's largest lake, classified as a brackish water body

Oceania[edit]

Estuaries[edit]

Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of kilometres
Chesapeake BayinMaryland 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 RiverinNew Jersey and Delaware, the United States
Great Bay, an extension of the Piscataqua RiverinPortsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
The Lower Hudson RiverinNew York and New Jersey, the United States
East River and Harlem RiverinNew 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 FjordinMidtjylland, Denmark
Río de la PlatainArgentina 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 FranciscoinCalifornia, 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.

References[edit]

^ Last, William M.; Slezak, Laurie A. (1988). "The salt lakes of western Canada: A paleolimnological overview" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 158: 301–316. doi:10.1007/BF00026286. S2CID 21394879 – via cc.umanitoba.ca.

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^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

^ "Lowcountry Estuarium — Window on the Waters". lowcountryestuarium.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10.

^ 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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