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.

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.

Opened in 1971, it is one of Britain's longest National Trails, stretching for from the Severn estuary at Sedbury, near Chepstow, to Prestatyn on the north Wales coast.

Lake Merritt, an urban estuary near downtown, is a mix of fresh and salt water draining in and out from the Oakland Harbor at the San Francisco Bay and one of Oakland's most notable features.

The city's economy revolves largely around its harbor-occupying a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbours.

From Teddington the river is opening out into its estuary, and at low tide it can take much greater flow rates the further one goes downstream.

An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

The estuary is subject to a microtidal regime, with a maximum tidal amplitude of about one metre, although water levels are also subject to barometric pressure fluctuations.

Centuries ago, Breydon Water would have been one large estuary facing the sea.

In terms of nature conservation, Breydon Water is one of the most important estuaries on the east coast of England between The Wash and the Thames estuary.

Fall River was and is unique for the fact that it has two large lakes ( originally one lake ) on the eastern part of the city which is higher in elevation, with a river emptying out of the ponds flowing two miles through the heart city emptying out into the deep bay / estuary in the west part of the city.

The 500 acre ( 2. 0 km² ) reserve is situated one mile east of Llanelli and five miles ( 8 km ) north of Swansea in south Wales, on the eastern side of Carmarthen Bay, and part of the Burry Inlet estuary which is an SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ), an SPA ( Special Protection Area ), and a Ramsar Site.

The estuary of the Altamaha River, where fresh and salt water mix, is about in size, one of the largest intact, relatively non-degraded estuary on the Atlantic coast.

It is one of the two outlets of the Saint Lawrence River into its estuary, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

It is one of the two outlets of the Saint Lawrence River into its estuary, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Lawrence Marine Park is a National Marine Conservation Area, one of three in the Canadian national park system, located where the fjord of the Saguenay River meets the estuary of the Saint Lawrence River.

At Onna ( Nursling ), the Romans erected a bridge ( probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains ) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross.

In one theory the name of the Angles came from Germanic words for " narrow " ( compare German eng = " narrow "), and meant " the people who live beside the Narrow ", i. e. beside the Schlei estuary.

The city of Bristol, originally established on the River Avon but now with docks on the Severn estuary, is one of the most important ports in Britain and gives its name to the Channel which forms its seaward approach.

He wrote of the episode in a letter to J. S. Henslow that one night when the Beagle was anchored in the estuary of the Río de la Plata:

The name Westcowe was attested in 1413 as the name of one of two sandbanks, on each side of the River Medina estuary, so-called after a supposed likeness to cows.

The Camel estuary was one of the first places in England to be colonised by Little Egrets, the birds being particularly seen on mudflats at low tide.