- Khatanga Gulf
The Khatanga Gulf or Khatanga Bay ( _ru. Хатангский залив) is a large tidal
estuary in theLaptev Sea . It is relatively narrow, its length being 220 km with a maximum width of 54 km.The
Bolshoy Begichev Island divides the gulf into twostrait s: Northern Strait (13 km wide) and Eastern Strait (8 km wide). The maximum depth of the gulf is 29 m. TheKhatanga River flows out into the Khatanga Gulf. The shores of the gulf are high, steep, and indented. Thetide s are semidiurnal reaching up to 1.4 m. The Khatanga Gulf is covered with ice most of the year.The shores of the Khatanga Bay are generally raised, consisting of low tundra cliffs, as well as sandstone and mudstone cliffs and sedimentation areas.
Since the administrative border cuts across this area, the northern and western parts of the Khatanga Bay belong to the
Krasnoyarsk Krai , while its southeastern side belongs to theSakha administrative region of theRussian Federation .The former settlement and penal colony of Nordvik was located by a north-facing bay on the Eastern Strait of the Khatanga Gulf known as Bukhta Nordvik.
References
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William Barr , "The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena".
* Khatanga settlement & Taymyr area information and pictures: [http://www.taimyr24.ru/about/area/2]
* Administration: [http://www.kommersant.com/p-28/r_371/Taimyr_(Dolgan-Nenets)_Autonomous_Area/]
* Oil and gas exploration: [http://www.springerlink.com/index/R833348431TJ3861.pdf]
* Ethnography: [http://www.angelfire.com/ri/georgev/bg11.html]
* History: [http://www.ivki.ru/kapustin/journal/troitskiy3.htm]
* Neolithic Age: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7316(195904)24%3A4%3C436%3ATNAIES%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W]
* Birds in the Khatanga Bay area: [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=487&m=0]
* Olga N. Medkova, "Coastal morphology and erosion of the Khatanga Bay". AARI.
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