Lagoons, Figure 1 Worldwide distribution of modern coastal lagoons (medium blue). Shoreline classification according to relative wave and tidal ranges after Bird
et al. (2013), modified (tide dominated, sky blue; wave dominated, orange; co-dominated, green; no data, gray). Numbers indicate the location of the largest lagoons (longer
than 40 km). 1, Kasegaluk Lagoon; 2, Great South Bay; 3, Barnegat Bay; 4, Pamlico Sound; 5, Indian River; 6, Galveston Bay; 7, Laguna Madre (USA); 8, Laguna Madre (Mexico);
9, Laguna de Tamiahua; 10, Laguna de Terminos; 11, Laguna de Caratasca; 12, Laguna de Perlas; 13, Lagoa dos Patos; 14, Lagoa Mirim; 15, Wadden Sea; 16, Szczecin Lagoon;
17, Vistula Lagoon; 18, Curonian Lagoon; 19, Sivash Lagoon System; 20, Lake Bardawil; 21, E ´
brie ´
Lagoon; 22, Lagos Lagoon and Lekki Lagoon; 23, Lagune Nkomi; 24,
Garabogazko ¨
l Aylagy (Kara-Bogaz-Gol); 25, Vembanad Lake; 26, Jaffna Lagoon (Sri Lanka); 27, Chilika Lake; 28, Zaliv Piltun; 29, Zaliv Nyyskiy; 30, Coorong Lagoon; 31,
Gippsland Lakes.
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