Bodies of Water

The named water features this atlas documents: oceans, seas, gulfs and bays, straits and channels, rivers, lakes, wetlands, fjords, estuaries, reservoirs and named waterfalls, grouped by standard hydrology type across eleven sub categories. This band is where a reader browses geography by its water rather than its land, from an entire ocean basin down to a single named lake or reservoir, distinct from the landform band that documents the dry features water itself carves and shapes.