Nordvik Bay
Nordvik Bay | |
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Nordvik Bay | |
Location | Far North |
Coordinates | 73°51′00″N 112°10′01″E / 73.85°N 112.167°ECoordinates: 73°51′00″N 112°10′01″E / 73.85°N 112.167°E |
Native name | [Бухта нордвик] Error: {{Native name}}: missing language tag (help) (language?) |
Ocean/sea sources | Laptev Sea |
Basin countries | Russia |
Nordvik Bay (Russian: Бухта нордвик, tr. Bukhta Nordvik; Yakut: Нордвик хомото) is a gulf in the Laptev Sea in the north of Russia. Lat 73° 45' and long 112°.
Nordvik Bay and most of its surrounding area belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation.
Geography[]
It is located Southeast of the mouth of the Khatanga Gulf, between two small peninsulas. The landspit in the west is the , where there was formerly a village called Nordvik and an infamous penal colony that lies now deserted. The peninsula in the east is called , with at its northern end, and on its eastern side lies the Anabar Bay.[1]
Nordvik Bay is 39 km wide and it has a regular semicircular shape. It is quite shallow, its average depth being around 6 m. It is circled by lowlands and, since the climate in the area is exceptionally severe, with prolonged, bitter winters, Nordvik Bay is covered by ice most of the year.
History[]
The name literally means "North Bay" in Norwegian. It was discovered and named by the Russian Great Northern Expedition in 1739.[2]
During the 1930s this area experienced a limited boom owing to the first icebreaker convoys plying the Northern Sea Route. Tiksi Bay and Mys Schmidta had become airports and Nordvik was "a growing town."[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Geography[permanent dead link]
- ^ History of the area
- ^ William Barr, The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena.
External links[]
- The Siberian Sea Road: The Work of the Russian Hydrographical Expedition to the Arctic 1910-1915
- Записки Харитона Лаптева (Exploration of the area)
- Gulfs of Russia
- Gulfs of the Laptev Sea
- Bodies of water of the Sakha Republic
- Geography of Gulag
- Sakha Republic geography stubs