Somes Sound
Somes Sound is a fjard[1] running deep into Mount Desert Island, the main site of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. Its deepest point is approximately Script error: No such module "convert"., and it is over Script error: No such module "convert". deep in several places. The sound almost splits the island in two.
While often described as the "only fjord on the East Coast",[2] it lacks the extreme vertical relief and anoxic sediments associated with Norwegian fjords, and is now called a fjard by officials[3][4] — a smaller drowned glacial embayment.
Somes Sound was named for Abraham Somes, who was one of the first settlers on the island and had a home at the end of the sound in Somesville, the first village on the island.
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Entrance of Somes Sound
Mount Desert Island, Maine (1855), by Fitz Hugh Lane -
Stereoscopic image of Valley Cove, Somes Sound. (1870s)
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