What is Bay?
[[File:Aerial photograph of Langness and the bay at Castletown 13 February 2014 - geograph.org.uk - 3847162.jpg|thumb|The bay at [[Castletown, Isle of Man]].]] A '''bay''' is a large body of water in the land next to a sea or lake between two [[headland]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Definition of BAY|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bay|website=Merriam-Webster |access-date=March 21, 2017|language=en|archive-date=March 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321165409/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bay|url-status=live}}</ref> The waves coming to the shore in a bay are usually constructive waves, and because of this, many of them have a beach. A bay may be metres across, or it could be hundreds of kilometres across.<ref>{{cite web|title=bay|work=Dictionary.com Unabridged|publisher=Random House, Inc.|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bay|access-date=March 21, 2017|archive-date=March 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322014359/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bay|url-status=live}}</ref> A large bay is often called a '''gulf''', '''sound''', or [[bight (geography)|bight]]. A bay often contains [[beach]]es. Bays form where weak rocks, such as sands and clays, are eroded, leaving bands of stronger rocks, such as chalk, limestone, or granite, forming a headland, or peninsula. Bays are formed when there are parallel sections of softer and harder rock perpendicular to the coast. ==Gallery== <gallery> File:Kells Bay.jpg|[[Kells]] bay, on the [[County Kerry|Ring of Kerry]] in [[Ireland]] File:Hanauma Bay 1.JPG|Hanauma bay, on the island of [[Hawaii]] File:Haifa Bay Panorama.jpg|alt=Haifa Bay, in Israel.|[[Haifa]] Bay, in [[Israel]]. </gallery> ==References== {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Bays| ]]