List of brackish bodies of water

Bodies of water of brackish nature are found around the world in a wide variety of settings, shapes and sizes. The following is a list of notable bodies of brackish water.

Brackish seas

Map of the Baltic Sea

• Baltic Sea (the world’s largest pool of brackish water)
• Black Sea

Brackish water lakes

Map of Lake Chilka, India's largest lake, classified as a brackish water body

• Caspian Sea (world’s largest lake)
• Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the United States
• Chilika Lake, Odisha, India
• Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
• Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
• Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
• Lake Monroe in Florida, the United States
• Pangong Tso in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
• Lake Van
• Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
• Lake Vouliagmeni, South of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece

Lochs (Scottish)

• Loch Long
• Loch of Stenness
• Loch Bee
• Loch Obisary
• Loch an Duin
• Loch Scavaig

Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas

• Budi Lake
• The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
• The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England, the United Kingdom
• Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
• The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
• Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
• Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
• Pulicat Lake, Andhra Pradesh,north of Chennai, India
• The Rann of Kutch on the border of India and Pakistan
• Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: An area known as the Camargue
• Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England
• Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States

Estuaries

• Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of miles
• Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. It is the drowned river valley of the Susquehanna River. It is the largest estuary in the United States.
• Delaware Bay, an extension of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Delaware, the United States
• The Lower Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, the United States
• East River and Harlem River in New York, the United States
• Lingding Yang, Guangdong, China
• Port Royal Sound in Beaufort County, South Carolina, the United States
• Puget Sound in Washington State, the United States
• Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.^[1]
• Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Quebec City and Saguenay respectively, Canada
• San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay adjacent to San Francisco in California, United States
• The Thames Estuary in South East England, United Kingdom

References

1. Seeliger, Ulrich; Björn Kjerfve (2001). Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. Springer. pp. 185–204. ISBN 978-3-540-67228-9.