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Sund Church (Finland)
Sund may refer to: Places In northern Europe, there are more than a hundred straits named ''Sund'', see: Sound (geography). *Sund, Åland, a municipality in Finland *Sund, Norway, a former municipality in Vestland county, Norway *Sund, Flakstad, a village in Flakstad municipality, Nordland county, Norway *Sund, Hemnes, a village in Hemnes municipality, Nordland county, Norway *Sund, Faroe Islands, a town in the Faroe Islands *Sund, Trosa, a village in Trosa Municipality, Sweden *Sund, Ydre, a hamlet in Ydre Municipality, Sweden *Øresund, a strait between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea *Sunds, Denmark People * Al Sund (1902–1951), American boxer * John Sund (born 1957), Danish guitarist and composer * Lenny Sund (1904–1972), American boxer * Steven Sund, former chief of the United States Capitol Police Other uses *Sudden unexplained nocturnal death, a type of Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) is a sudden unexpected death of adolesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A ''sound'' may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland. Overview A sound is often formed by the seas flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. These sounds are more appropriately called rias. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation. Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on a coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley. The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical sides that extend deep underwater. The sea floor is often flat and deeper at the landward end than the seaward end, due to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
