Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

Access to the port from the Atlantic ocean is via the Gironde estuary.

To the west, north and south, the area is surrounded by the tidal estuary of the Hudson River.

The plain is densely forested including areas of Central African mangroves especially around Douala and in the estuary of the Cross River on the border with Nigeria.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes.

At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.

There is occasionally confusion between this city and the Italian port of Genoa ( in Italian Genova ) as they seem to share a Celtic root, genu / genawa, meaning " estuary ".

In this passage, Pytheas states that the " Gutones, a people of Germany ," inhabit the shores of an estuary of at least 6, 000 stadia ( the Baltic Sea ) called Mentonomon, where amber is cast up by the waves.

The city is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay.

Hong Kong is 60 km east of Macau on the opposite side of the Pearl River estuary.

The city is located in the state's south-east on the estuary of the Derwent River.

The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be ported overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous circumnavigation of Jutland.

The shoreline is regular with no deep estuary, gulf, or natural harbor.

It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang ( Pearl River ) estuary on the east and the Xijiang ( West River ) on the west.

One example is the Siberian sturgeon ( Acipenser baerii ) which accidentally escaped from a fish farm into the Gironde Estuary ( Southwest France ) following a severe storm in December 1999 ( 5, 000 individual fish escaped into the estuary which had never hosted this species before ).

A notable feature of the landscape is created by the meanders of the Seine as it approaches its estuary.

Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbours, the Teutones.

" Mentonomon " is unambiguously stated to be an aestuarium or " estuary " of 6000 stadia, which using the Herodotean standard of 600 feet per stadium is 681 miles.

Competing views, however, usually have to reinterpret " estuary " to mean something other than an estuary, as the west of the Baltic Sea is the only body of estuarial water of sufficient length in the region.

The Gironde is subject to very strong tidal currents and great care is needed when navigating the estuary by any size or type of boat.

In 1484 Magnus of Saxe-Lauenburg, then vicegerent of the Land of Hadeln, failed to subject the free Frisian peasants in the Land of Wursten, de facto an autonomous region in a North Sea marsh at the Weser estuary under the loose overlordship of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen.

The state border between the Lower Saxon area of East Friesland ( Germany ) and the province of Groningen ( Netherlands ), whose exact course is the subject of a border dispute between Germany and the Netherlands, runs through the Ems estuary.

Between Emden and Delfzijl, the Ems forms the border between the Netherlands and Germany and is subject to mild dispute: the Dutch believe that the border runs through the geographical centre of the estuary, whereas the Germans claim it runs through the deepest channel ( which is close to the Dutch coast ).

An important link in the inland waterway system of southern Florida, the river forms a tidal estuary along most of its course and has recently become the subject of efforts to restore and preserve the Everglades.

A tidal creek, tidal channel, or estuary is the portion of a stream that is affected by ebb and flow of ocean tides, in the case that the subject stream discharges to an ocean, sea or strait.

Part of the estuary of the Lower Hudson River, this area is subject to significant tides, making navigation by sailing vessels particularly difficult.

The estuary is a highly dynamic environment, subject to high freshwater outflows during the spring freshet, low outflow and rising saltwater content during the summer period, fall ocean storms and nor ' easters which reshape the barrier islands and the old river channel, and winter sea ice which encases the entire estuary.

Early maps seem to indicate that the route of today's Shelbourne Road was determined by the borders of the marshy Dodder estuary which, fed by the Swan River ( now culverted ) and subject to tidal flooding, extended almost as far west as the site of the Beggars ' Bush Barracks.

These estuary wetlands, and the remaining open space, have been the subject of a battle between developers and environmentalists that has been ongoing for decades.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

It was a home of the Royal Navy from the reign of Edward III and was twice surprised and sacked during the Hundred Years ' War, after which the mouth of the estuary was closed every night with a great chain.

From around 1000 AD, Flanders historically meant to English-speaking peoples the land situated along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary with ill-defined southern borders.

Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century named the country after the Portuguese word gabão, a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary.

Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word gabão — a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo river estuary.

* Western-most point ( mainland ) – the point at which the border with Guinea-Bissau enters the Rio Compony estuary

Along with the other land around the Hawkesbury River estuary, the Brisbane Water district was explored during the early stages of the settlement of Sydney.

Although the town was small, with just one street, it was at the junction of Watling Street and the estuary of the Medway, and was thus a fortified town.

Other major rivers include the Imjin, which flows through both North Korea and South Korea and forms an estuary with the Han River ; the Bukhan, a tributary of the Han that also flows out of North Korea ; and the Somjin.

The north shore of the estuary was under a Bulom king, and the area just east of Freetown on the peninsula was held by a non-Mani with a European name, Dom Phillip de Leon ( he may however have been a subordinate to his Mani neighbour ).

The map here shows the adapted Scamander estuary with Ilium a little way inland across the Homeric plain.

* May 28 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30, 000 men, begins to set sail from the Tagus estuary heading for the English Channel ( it will take until May 30 for all of the ships to leave port ).

Mobile Bay is the fourth largest estuary in the United States with a discharge of of water per second.

Sir Cyril Fox completed the first major survey of the Dyke ( Fox 1955 ), and, in agreement with Asser, theorized that the Dyke ran from the estuary of the River Dee in the north to the River Wye in the south ( approximately 150 miles, or 240 km ).

In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

He was determined to gain the Oder estuary with its access to the Baltic Sea for the Brandenburgian core areas, which had been a state goal for centuries.

At the start of the 21st century, Sydney faces a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry.

It enters Backergunje near the north-west corner of the district, whence it forms its western boundary, and runs south, but with great windings in its upper reaches, until it crosses the Sundarbans, and finally falls into the Bay of Bengal by a large and deep estuary, capable of receiving ships of considerable size.

The important rivers are the Charente and its tributaries, the Boutonne and the Seugne, along with the Sèvre Niortaise, the Seudre, and the Garonne, in its downstream part, which is the estuary of the Gironde.

In February 1406, James, in the company of nobles loyal to King Robert III, clashed with those of the Earl of Douglas, forcing the prince to take temporary refuge on the Bass Rock in the Forth estuary.

They renamed Gulf of Tartary to Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, which connects the strait's main body ( formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary ) with the Amur Liman ( Amur River estuary ), in the captain's honour, Strait of Nevelskoy.

From that moment on, the Oosterschelde lost its connection with the Scheldt, and is no longer functioning as an estuary.