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Sounds Of Scotland
This is a list of the sounds of Scotland. These straits vary in size from substantial sea channels to the tiny Clachan Sound, which is only {{convert, 21.3, m, ft wide and spanned by the Clachan Bridge.Murray (1977) p. 121. There are numerous other stretches of open water around the Scottish coasts that could be classified as straits, but which are called by names other than "sound". Shetland * Balta Sound on the island of Unst * Bluemull Sound between Unst and Yell * Colgrave Sound between Fetlar and Yell *Easter Sound between Vaila and Whitesness on the West Mainland *Sound of Papa between Papa Stour and West Mainland * Uyea Sound between Uyea and Unst *Vaila Sound separating Vaila from Linga and the bays of Walls *Wester Sound between Vaila and Burrastow on the West Mainland * Yell Sound between Yell and Mainland Shetland Orkney *Auskerry Sound between Stronsay and Auskerry *Burra Sound between Hoy and Graemsay *Calf Sound between Calf of Eday and Eday * Clestrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A ''sound'' may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland. Overview A sound is often formed by the seas flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. These sounds are more appropriately called rias. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation. Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on a coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley. The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical sides that extend deep underwater. The sea floor is often flat and deeper at the landward end than the seaward end, due to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
