Brackish Water - Notable Brackish Bodies of Water (by Type, in Alphabetical Order)

Notable Brackish Bodies of Water (by Type, in Alphabetical Order)

Brackish seas

  • Baltic Sea (the world’s largest pool of brackish water)
  • Black Sea
  • Caspian Sea (world’s largest lake)

Brackish water lakes

  • Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.
  • Chilka Lake, in Orissa state, India
  • Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
  • Laguna de Oviedo, in the Dominican Republic
  • Lake Maracaibo, in Zulia State, Venezuela
  • Lake Monroe in Florida, U.S.
  • Pangong Tso in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir state, India
  • Lake Van
  • Lake Mogil'noe,in Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia

Lochs (Scottish)

  • Loch Long
  • Loch of Stenness
  • Loch Bee
  • Loch Obisary
  • Loch an Duin
  • Loch Scavaig

Coastal lagoons, marshes, and deltas

  • The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
  • The Fleet lagoon, Dorset, England
  • Kaliveli Lake, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Kerala Backwaters, Series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala
  • Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
  • Pulicat Lake, north of Chennai, India
  • The Rann of Kutch, on the border of India and Pakistan
  • Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: An area known as the Camargue
  • Widewater, and land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England

Estuaries

  • Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of miles
  • Chesapeake Bay, located 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, USA
  • Lower Hudson River, in New York and New Jersey, U.S.
  • East River and Harlem River, New York, USA
  • Lingding Yang, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China
  • Port Royal Sound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA The Lowcountry Estuarium - Estuary, Marsh, & Creek Life - South Carolina Coast
  • Río de la Plata, in Argentina and Uruguay.
  • Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Québec and Saguenay respectively
  • San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay adjacent to San Francisco in California, U.S.
  • The Thames Estuary in South East England

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