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Inlet

Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England (Great Britain)

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A fjord (Lysefjorden) in Norway

An inlet is a body of water, usually seawater, which has characteristics of one or more of the following:
* a bay
* a cove
* an estuary
* a firth
* a fjord
* a geo
* a sea loch
* a sea lough
* a sound

The Mediterranean Sea (and thus the Black Sea) may be seen as inlets of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Currituck Sound, North Carolina



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