Tuzla Island

Tuzla Island

Infobox Islands
name = Tuzla
native name = острів Коса Тузла
native name link = Ukrainian language


image caption =Landsat satellite photo of the Strait of Kerch with the Kosa Tuzla Island in the middle.
locator

location = Strait of Kerch
coordinates= coord|45|16|N|36|33|E|type:isle_scale:50000
area = 3.5 km²
country = Ukraine
population = 40 (2003) [cite news|url=http://today.viaduk.net/segodnya.nsf/d08bc6dd0e546e15c22571470060c1bb/e01f25acf072447ec22571a3007df92f/$FILE/060707_SEG_KIE_20.pdf|title=History of one day|first=Michail|last=Budilov|pages=20|format=PDF|work=Newspaper Today #2390 (Kiev)|date=2006-07-07|language=Russian]
population as of =

Tuzla Island ( _uk. Тузла; _cr. Tuzla) is a sand spit island in the middle of the Strait of Kerch near the Crimean Kerch Peninsula in the west and the Taman Peninsula in the east. There was a territorial dispute over the ownership of the island between Ukraine and Russia in October 2003.

ee also

* Tuzla Island conflict

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