Tidal inlet: a river mouth or narrow gap between islands, within which salt water moves landwards during a rising tide.
One travelled from the river mouth all the way to the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland's far north.
Sand bar: accretionary deposit of sand formed across a river mouth or bay by wave action and joined to the shore at both ends.
The wave breaks at the river mouth so you can rinse off in a fresh water pool with a view of light green pyramid-shaped mountains in the valley.
The wedge has been moving up the Mississippi since early this month, reaching mile marker 89 -- signifying that many miles from the river mouth -- by Wednesday, Laigast said.
Biomes such as river, estuary (the mouth of the Limary River), coastline, semi-arid sclerophyll shrub land and evergreen relict forest are represented.
At the end of last week police began detailed searches of a stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club.
South Wales Police said the stretch of river between Leckwith Hill bridge and the mouth of the River Ely near Cardiff Bay Yacht Club will be the area searched on Thursday for Mr Thompson, who is a worker at South Hook LNG gas plant in Pembrokeshire.
The survivors floated down the Amur, wintered at the river's mouth and in the spring turned north into the Sea of Okhotsk.
They also say that the dam threatens the wetlands at the river's mouth, which are home to migratory birds and the rare shiomaneki crab.
Estuary: mouth of a river, where fresh river water mixes with the seawater.
The ships that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 sailed from the mouth of the River Plym.
Specialist sonar equipment will once again be used to search the mouth of the River Ely in Cardiff Bay.
On Dangar Island, located near the mouth of the river where the Hawkesbury meets the Tasman Sea, there are no cars.
The search for a rugby fan who disappeared after Wales' Six Nations game against Ireland in Cardiff is to switch to the mouth of the River Ely.
The proposals form part of Peel Energy's vision to develop the mouth of the River Mersey into a "renewables hub" and sits alongside plans to harness tidal power from the river.
Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.
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Likewise, past busy Benaulim and Cavelossim, you will encounter undisturbed golden sand that stretches south to the mouth of the River Sal at Mobor, where itinerant fisherfolk haul in their wares and the Blue Whale beach shack graces one of the most picture-perfect spots in all of Goa.
Their water source at the mouth of the Murray River, in South Australia, has turned salty.
Building the bridge involved reclaiming 27 hectares of land which narrowed the mouth of a local river.
Hwanggumpyong is a sandy island at the mouth of the Yalu river that divides North Korea from China.
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The bloom formed that July around the mouth of the Maumee River, on the lake's western end near Toledo, Ohio.
To the west was the mouth of a fertile river (the Hudson) packed with oysters, more stripers, sturgeon, shad, porgies and bluefish.
In 1899, the border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela was finally settled, Venezuela gaining the area around the mouth of the Orinoco river.
The well, about 50 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River, is dumping about 42, 000 gallons a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
The spill stretched eastward from a point about 16 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River to about 94 miles south of Pensacola, Florida.
The memory helps the fish find its way back to the mouth of its home river, and from there it uses chemical cues to locate its birth stream.
The slick stretched about 100 miles across the north-central Gulf on Wednesday afternoon and had advanced to within 16 miles of the mouth of the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
Already their numbers have been decimated by marriage and migration. (Some 40, 000 Macanese now live abroad.) They and their once-graceful port at the mouth of the Pearl River will have a hard time maintaining a distinct identity under mainland rule.
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