The fjords of the United States are mostly found along the glacial regions of the coasts of Alaska and Washington. These fjords — long narrow

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s in valleys carved by glacial activity — can have two or more basins separated by sills. Most of the fjords in Washington originate off Puget Sound and the Salish Sea, while fjords in Alaska originate from numerous, more varied locations. The Hudson River fjord in

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is recognized as the only true Fjord in the

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Somes Sound Somes Sound is a fjard, a body of water running deep into Mount Desert Island, the main site of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. Its deepest point is approximately , and it is over deep in several places. The sound almost splits the ...

, a fjard located within Acadia National Park, is often mistaken for being another fjord located along the

List of fjords

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List of fjords

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