Dofinivka Estuary

Great Adzhalyk Estuary
View of the estuary
Location	Ukraine
Coordinates	48°36′N 30°53′E / 48.6°N 30.883°E / 48.6; 30.883Coordinates: 48°36′N 30°53′E / 48.6°N 30.883°E / 48.6; 30.883
Lake type	Estuary
Primary inflows	Great Adzhalyk
Basin countries	Ukraine
Max. length	7.7 km
Max. width	1.1 km
Surface area	6.0 km²
Average depth	0.74 m
Water volume	4.5 mln. m²
Settlements	Nova Dofinivka, Vapnyarka

Dofinivka Estuary, Great Adzhalyk Estuary, or Dofinisvkyi Lyman (Ukrainian: Дофінівський лиман, Великий Аджалицький лиман, Russian: Дофиновский лиман, Большой Аджалыцкий лиман, Turkish: Büyük Adcalik liman), is a brackish water area in the South Ukraine, in 12 km to east from Odessa. The water body is an estuary of small steppe river Great Adzhalyk, which inflows to the estuary in northern part. The length of the estuary is about 8 km, width about 1 km. The water body is very shallow, maximal depth is 1.2 m, but average less than 0.5 m.

It is separated from the Black Sea by the sandbar. It is artificially connected with the sea by a tube, about 1 m in diameter, since July 2001. The estuary is shallowest water body in the north-western Black Sea.

References

• Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odessa, 151 pp. (in Russian)
• North-western Black Sea: biology and ecology, Eds.: Y.P. Zaitsev, B.G. Aleksandrov, G.G. Minicheva, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 2006, 701 pp.

Look also

• Berezan Estuary
• Tyligul Estuary
• Khadzhibey Estuary
• Dniester Estuary
• Sukhyi Estuary

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