Karkinit Bay

Karkinit Bay
Cape Tarkhankut is the southernmost point of the bay
Karkinit Bay
Location	Black Sea
Coordinates	45°48′N 32°37′E / 45.800°N 32.617°E / 45.800; 32.617Coordinates: 45°48′N 32°37′E / 45.800°N 32.617°E / 45.800; 32.617
Ocean/sea sources	Atlantic Ocean
Basin countries	Ukraine Russia (disputed)
Max. depth	35 m (115 ft)
Salinity	18 ‰
Settlements	Skadovsk, Armyansk, Krasnoperekopsk
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays
Designated	11 October 1976
Reference no.	114[1]

Karkinit, Karkinitski,^[2] Carcinites, or Karkinitsky Bay (Ukrainian: Каркінітська затока, Karkinits’ka zatoka; Russian: Каркинитский залив, Karkinitskiy zaliv^[3]) is a bay of the Black Sea that separates the northwestern Crimean Peninsula from the mainland Ukraine. It was named after the early Greek settlement of Kerkinitis (Κερκινίτης) on the Crimean coast in place of modern Yevpatoria.

The northeastern tip of the Karkinitis Bay, by the Isthmus of Perekop, is known as the Perekop Bay or Gulf of Perekop.

The bay contains the preserve Karkinits'ka Zatoka State Zakaznik.

On the Marcator's map of 16th century the bay is named as Golfo de Nigropoli^[4] after the city on north shores of the Pontus Euxeinus. Nigropoli was a city located on the Silch River that flows in a bosom of the Eusino Sea to the west of the Crimea forms its own Gulf^[5][6]

According to Strabo, another name for Gulf of Carcinites was Gulf of Tamyraca.^[7]

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  At the Mercator's map it is named as Golfo de Nigropoli

References[]

External links[]

• The Mercator's map. Barry Lawrence Ruderman, Antique Maps Inc.

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