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Bays, Gulfs and Headlands of the World Posters, Prints, Charts
for oceanography and marine environment, ecology, and geography educators & classrooms.
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science > aquatic/marine > bays, gulfs & headlands < oceans < landforms < geography < social studies
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A bay is a body of water that is partly enclosed by land and is usually smaller than a gulf. Bays are formed when the coastline has varying degrees of resistance to the eroding effect of water.
The terms gulf and sea refer to bays formed by tectonic movement of the Earth's crust.
A headland is land surrounded by water on three sides: a large headland is a peninsula, promontories are long, narrow and high headlands; a cape is a headland that signicantly affects ocean currents.
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Hudson, James and Baffin Bay - Canada from Space Art Print
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• Canada posters
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Baffin Bay - between Atlantic & Arctic Ocean, usually filled with ice, Greenland to the east; Hudson Bay - ne Canada, James Bay is a southern offshoot; the Saint Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean at the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
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The Chesapeake Bay, the ria or drowned valley of the Susquehanna River, is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay, lying off the Atlantic Ocean, is surrounded by Maryland and Virginia.
More than 150 rivers and streams drain the Chesapeake Bay watershed which covers the District of Columbia and parts of six states.
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Cape Hatteras, the southeastern point of long shoals or sandbars (promontory) on Hatteras Island, is part of the Outer Banks, a 200-mile (320-km) long string of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. Roanoke Island, which was the site of the English Roanoke Colony that disappeared c. 1587, and Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk where the Wright Brothers were the first to fly a powered, heavier than air vehicle in 1903, are part of the Outer Banks. The Outer Banks, known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” were also hiding places for pirates like Edward Teach, aka “Blackbeard.”
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The Italian Peninsula, also known as the Apennine Peninsula, the Iberian Peninsula of Spain, and Portugal, and the Balkan Peninsula with Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro, are the three peninsulas of Southern Europe.
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| The Bay and Gulf of Bothnia are arms of the Baltic Sea between the east coast of Sweden and the west coast of Finland; the Gulf of Finland extends from the Baltic between Finland and Estonia. Denmark consists of a large peninsula and many islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.
• Scandinavia posters
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Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean Sea
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Island, Peninsula, and Cape
Poster text:
Cape: A point or head of land, projecting beyond the adjacent coast into a body of water.
Island: Any piece of land, smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, which is completely surround by water. Very small islands are called islets. Groups of related islands are called archipelagos.
Atoll: A ring of coral islands or reefs usually surrounding an interior body of water called a lagoon. Atolls often mark the location of submerged mountain ranges or extinct volcanic islands.
Peninsula: A narrow extension of land surrounded on three sides by water, but connected to a larger land mass. Usually more extensive than a cape.
• Landform poster series -
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