St. Simons Island lies on the south side of the Altamaha estuary.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

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

The line was drawn through the Cross River estuary to the west of the peninsula, thereby implying Cameroonian ownership over Bakassi.

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.

At the estuary of the Isère River, the Teutons and the Ambrones met Marius, whose well-defended camp they did not manage to overrun.

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.

* Firth of Forth, the estuary and sea bay widening out from the River Forth

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.

They then traded these goods, in the estuary of the Geba River, for black slaves captured by other black peoples in local African wars and raids.

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

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.

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 document defined the common border all along the Khawr Abd Allah ( Shatt ) River estuary as the thalweg.

These include Loch Goil, Loch Long, Gare Loch, Loch Fyne and the estuary of the River Clyde.

Locks at Brunsbüttel connecting the canal to the River Elbe estuary, and thence to the North Sea

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.

A line from the estuary of the River Rovuma () to Ras Habu, the Northern point of Ile Grande Comore, the Northern of the Comore ( Comoro ) Islands, to Cap d ' Ambre ( Amber ) the Northern extremity of Madagascar ().

The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately five miles northwest of Wadebridge, ten miles northwest of Bodmin and ten miles northeast of Newquay.

The approach from the sea into the River Camel is partially blocked by the Doom Bar, a bank of sand extending across the estuary which is a significant hazard to shipping and the cause of many shipwrecks.

The other, at northeast, is from the River Plym disgorging into its narrow estuary, Cattewater harbour between Mount Batten and the Royal Citadel.

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.

Helston once headed the estuary of the River Cober, before it was cut off from the sea by Loe Bar in the 13th century.

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 strategic importance of the site was increased by the fact that it lay on a major river estuary, where vessels could dock at the port of Suso.

Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

The Garonne follows the Aran Valley northwards into France, flowing via Toulouse and Agen towards Bordeaux, where it meets the Gironde estuary.

* In the Northwest area of the current Ankoala ( from kuala, " estuary " in Malay and Indonesian ) where the Hova Orang Laut ( Antalaotra in Malagasy ) had probably established their base for their Indian Ocean operations.

Its north-eastern point marks the boundary between the St. Lawrence River and its estuary ( the largest in the world ), where fresh water begins to mix with salt water.

The shallowest area of the estuary occurs at the mouth, where terminal glacial deposits or rock bars form sills that restrict water flow.

Limerick city stands at the point where the river water meets the sea water of the estuary.

The Wash is the square-mouthed bay and estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire.

A firth is generally the result of ice age glaciation and is very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed into an estuary.

The Firth of Clyde is sometimes thought to include the estuary as far upriver as Dumbarton, but the Ordnance Survey map shows the change from river to firth occurring off Port Glasgow, while locally the change is held to be at the Tail of the Bank where the river crosses a sandbar off Greenock at the junction to the Gare Loch, or even further west at Gourock point.

This estuary marks the place where the fresh water Tijuana River enters the salt water Pacific Ocean.

The largest village, called Mystic ( now Old Mystic ), was also known as the Head of the River, because it lay where several creeks united into the Mystic River estuary.

New Bedford Harbor, a body of water shared with Fairhaven, is actually the estuary of the Acushnet River where it empties into Buzzards Bay.

North Bend is surrounded on three sides by Coos Bay, an S-shaped water inlet and estuary where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean, and borders the city of Coos Bay, Oregon to the south.

The Firth of Forth () is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south.

It broadens into an estuary at Ipswich where the Ipswich dock has operated since the 7th century and then flows into the North Sea at Felixstowe after joining with the River Stour at Shotley.

Near the rural community of Martock, the river enters a broad glacial river valley forming a ria ) where it becomes tidal, creating an estuary for its remaining route to the Minas Basin several kilometres downriver from the town of Hantsport.

The Sumner Bar is a sand bar where the estuary meets the sea and is notoriously dangerous to cross.

A river delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir.

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean.

* The coast: the main features are the estuary of Bilbao where the main rivers meet the sea and the estuary of Gernika ( Urdaibai ).