Buor-Khaya Gulf

Coordinates: 71°20′N 130°50′E / 71.333°N 130.833°E / 71.333; 130.833
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Buor-Khaya Gulf
Губа Буор-Хая (
Omoloy River
Ocean/sea sourcesLaptev Sea
Basin countriesRussia

The Buor-Khaya Gulf or Buor-Khaya Bight (

Russian Federation
.

There is an abandoned

polar station in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.[1]

Geography

It lies at the western end of the

Lena delta on its western side and Cape Buor-Khaya at its NE end. Tiksi Bay and the Bykovsky Peninsula are on the western shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.[2]

Heavily eroded Muostakh Island, the remainder of an ancient great plain, is located roughly in the midst of the gulf.[3]

The

Omoloy River
is the only large river flowing into the Buor-Khaya Gulf, its mouth is located halfway up the eastern coast. The sea in this gulf is frozen for about nine months every year and often clogged with ice floes.

See also

References

External links

  • Kalinenko, V. V. (2001). "Clay Minerals in Sediments of the Arctic Seas". Lithology and Mineral Resources. 36 (4): 362–372.
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  • Sekretov, Sergey B. (2002). "Structure and tectonic evolution of the Southern Eurasia Basin, Arctic Ocean". Tectonophysics. 351 (3): 193–243. .
  • Seismic Arctic Earthquakes