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Inlet
Indentation of a shoreline / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Inlet (disambiguation).
An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh,[1] that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
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