The Khatanga Gulf or Khatanga Bay (russian: Хатангский залив) is a large tidal

estuary An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ...

in the

Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, t ...

. It is relatively narrow, its length being with a maximum width of .

Geography

The

Bolshoy Begichev Island Bolshoy Begichev (russian: Большой Бегичев, translation= Big Begichev) is an island in the Laptev Sea, in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Geography The area of the island is . Bolshoy Begichev is located within the Khatanga Gulf (russia ...

divides the gulf into two

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s: Northern Strait ( wide) and Eastern Strait ( wide). The maximum depth of the gulf is . The Khatanga River and the

Popigay River The Popigay (russian: Попигай) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It s a right tributary of the Khatanga. The length of the river is . The area of its drainage basin is . The river has its source in the Anabar Plateau. It freezes up i ...

flow out into the Khatanga Gulf. The shores of the gulf are high, steep, and indented. The

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s are semidiurnal reaching up to . 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 Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Si ...

, while its southeastern side belongs to the

Sakha Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far ...

administrative region of the

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. The former settlement and

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of Nordvik was located by a north-facing bay on the Eastern Strait of the Khatanga Gulf known as Bukhta Nordvik.

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, ''The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena''.

References

* Khatanga settlement & Taymyr area information and pictures

Oil and gas exploration

* Neolithic Age

* Birds in the Khatanga Bay area

Estuaries of Russia Bodies of water of the Laptev Sea Bodies of water of Krasnoyarsk Krai Bodies of water of the Sakha Republic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub