List of gulfs
A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. Not all geological features which could be considered a gulf have "Gulf" in the name, for example the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea.[1][2] There are 62 gulfs in total.
List
The term may refer to:
- Gulf Islands close to Vancouver Island and within the Strait of Georgia within British Columbia
- Gulf of Aden, off the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula
- Gulf of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean south of the state of Alaska
- Ambracian Gulf in Greece
- Amundsen Gulf in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Canada
- Gulf of Aqaba in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to Israel and Jordan
- Argolic Gulf in Greece
- Gulf of Bahrain, part of the Persian Gulf
- Gulf of Bothnia, part of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland
- Gulf of Burgas, Black Sea, Bulgaria
- Gulf of Cádiz, part of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern border of Spain and Portugal
- Gulf of California in the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Mexico
- Cambridge Gulf, on the north coast of Western Australia
- Gulf of Carpentaria a large bay off northern Australia
- Gulf of Cazones a large gulf in southern Cuba
- Gulf of Corinth, which extends into Greece from the Mediterranean Sea.
- Gulf of Corryvreckan in Scotland
- Davao Gulf in the Philippines
- Exmouth Gulf
- Gulf of the Farallones, westward from the opening of the San Francisco Bay and Drakes Bay to the Farallon Islands
- Gulf of Finland, between the southern coast of Finland and the northern coast of Estonia in the Baltic Sea. It leads to the port of St. Petersburg, Russia
- Gulf of Fonseca
- Gulf of Gabès
- Gulf of Genoa inside the Ligurian Sea on the northwestern coast of Italy
- Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Equatorial Africa
- Gulf of Hammamet
- Hauraki Gulf, part of the Pacific Ocean between the Auckland region and the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island
- Gulf of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea between Belize and Honduras
- Gulf of İzmir in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. It was formerly called the Gulf of Smyrna
- Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea, formerly known as the Gulf of Cambay
- Gulf of Kuşadası
- Gulf of Kutch in the Arabian Sea
- Lingayen Gulf, off western Luzon, the Philippines, in the South China Sea
- Gulf of Lion, a bay on the Mediterranean coastline of Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France
- Gulf of Maine, off the States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in the United States, and the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean
- Malian Gulf
- Gulf of Mannar, between India and Sri Lanka
- Gulf of Mexico, between Mexico, the United States, and Cuba
- Gulf of Morbihan, a natural harbor on the coast of the Département of Morbihan in the south of Brittany
- Gulf of Nicoya, in Costa Rica. Central America.
- Gulf of Odessa
- Gulf of Oman, between the southeastern Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and Arabian Sea.
- Gulf of Oristano, near Oristano on the Western Sardinian coast
- Gulf of Panama in the Pacific Ocean south of Panama
- Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
- Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan
- Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea
- Gulf of Roses, the most northeastern bay on the Catalan coast
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary and the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean
- Gulf St Vincent, Separated from Spencer Gulf by the Yorke Peninsula
- Saronic Gulf, which extends into Greece from the Aegean Sea.
- Gulf of Sirte, just north of Libya in the Mediterranean
- Spencer Gulf, near Port Lincoln, South Australia
- Gulf of Suez in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to the Suez Canal
- Gulf of Taranto in the Mediterranean between the toe and the heel of Italy
- Gulf of Tartary between Russia and Sakhalin
- Gulf of Thailand just south of Thailand in the Pacific Ocean South China Seas
- Gulf of Tonkin just east of North Vietnam in the Pacific Ocean
- Gulf of Tunis in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia
- Gulf of Varna, Black Sea, Bulgaria
- Gulf of Venice, at the head of the Adriatic Sea between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
See also
- Guba, a Russian word (Russian: Губа) for gulf
References
- https://www.britannica.com/science/gulf-coastal-feature
- Earth's Coasts - Page 11 0778732061 Bobbie Kalman - 2008 A bay is an area of the ocean where the land curves inward. A cove is a small bay A gulf is a big, deep area of ocean that has land almost all around it. This gulf is the Gulf of Mexico. A strait is a narrow inlet of water that flows between two ...
External links
- Media related to Gulfs at Wikimedia Commons
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