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Oxbow Lake: a lake with a U-shape that forms from a river after the water follows a new path from its original meander; called a billabong in Australia. A usually-dry bed of a steep-sided stream, gully, or narrow channel that temporarily fills with water after heavy rain. See also wadi. You’ll see the word “kill” used both to refer to creeks and to various towns, such as Peekskill. It’s also used in the name of one of New York’s famous mountain ranges, the Catskills. 23. Lagoon The Great Australian Bight is often considered to be one of the world’s largest bights as it extends across much of the southern coastline of the country. 7. Billabong Although it’s very similar in spelling to the word “bourne,” which refers to a small stream, the word “burn” actually has a completely different use. The term burn is used primarily in Scotland, though you’ll also see it in New Zealand, Australia, and parts of both Ulster and northern England.

The largest body of water on Earth, oceans are massive collections of saltwater that span approximately 71% of the planet’s total surface areas. a shallow, natural depression in level ground, with no permanent above-ground outlet, that holds water seasonally. Canals were particularly important in the years before the widespread construction of railroads and the advent of the motor vehicle. Some canals, such as the Erie Canal in New York, were critical for connecting the port of New York City to the Saint Lawrence Seaway, during the 1800s, but they have since fallen out of regular use. 11. ChannelIn Australia, the world billabong derives from the Wiradjuri word “bilabang.” Billabong means lake in the Wiradjuri language from what is now New South Wales. a deep, broad trench, either dry or filled with water, surrounding and protecting a structure, installation, or town. Explores what it means to straddle multiple cultures, languages and landscapes . . . A most intimate read – Wee Review When used in the traditional sense, a harbor is any type of sheltered body of water. Harbors can be either natural, as in the case of inlets that are protected from weather conditions, or artificial, as in the case of harbors that are constructed around major ports.

This lyrical collection explores the bodies of water that separate and connect us, as well as everything from migration and earthquakes. Small Bodies of Water weaves together personal memories, dreams and nature writing. It reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong. Author's Biography

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But, the term puddle is used very loosely in English, so there’s no technical definition of what a puddle is in a geographical context. Nevertheless, most people would use the word puddle to denote a body of water that’s substantially smaller than a pond. 32. Reservoir a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land. A billabong is a type of oxbow lake. However, you will rarely hear this term used to refer to oxbow lakes outside of Australia. It’s believed that the word derives from the Middle Dutch word kille, which meant riverbed or a water channel. Nowadays, the term has more or less fallen out of use except in parts of New York and New Jersey in the United States, which the Dutch had colonized during the eighteenth century. Since many tarns are filled with finely ground glacial sediment, they tend to create beautiful colors in bright sunlight. The sediment that’s suspended in the lakes often refracts the sun’s rays, providing stunning landscapes in the mountains. 43. Tide Pool

Simply put, a stream is any flowing body of water along the Earth’s surface. We often use the word “stream” to refer to smaller rivers, though this usage varies across the world.

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A lagoon (#48) is a shallow elongated body of water separated form a larger body of water by a sandbank, coral reef or other barrier, while a barachois (#49) is a coastal lagoon separation by the ocean by a sand bar that may periodically get filled with salt water when the tide is high. Mr. Wolter, in contrast to your colleagues, you have mainly been working on small urban water bodies—to be precise, Berlin's 400+ ponds, small lakes and ditches. What role do these systems play for the urban climate, local recreation and stormwater management? And what does this mean for future urban development? In the winter of 1933/4 Ritter, an Austrian painter and self-proclaimed “housewife”, makes the radical decision to join her hunter-trapper husband and a Norwegian hunter in Arctic Spitsbergen, living together in a tiny hut. Often alone for long spells, her mundane chores and her will to survive the extremes uncover marvels, both in the place and her spirit. The imagistic prose is exhilarating. Written as a journal – with long periods tellingly absent – we witness her transformation as she relinquishes herself to this place. A strait is a generic term that’s used to describe any naturally-formed narrow body of water that forms a connection between two other bigger bodies of water. Various other types of bodies of water, such as channels, are also technically straits. We’ve already mentioned what a loch is so we won’t rehash those details here. But, we should mention that there are some lochs that are not freshwater lakes. Rather, some lochs are what’s known as sea lochs, which are essentially tidal inlets.