Anabar Bay (; ) is a gulf in the

Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic Cape to a point with ...

. Lat 74° 30' and long 113° 15'. It stretches between the eastern cape off the mouth of the

Anabar River The Anabar (, in its upper course: Большая Куонамка ''Bolshaya Kuonamka''; ) is a river in Sakha, Russia. It is long ( counting the long Bolshaya Kuonamka ("Big Kuonamka") stretch of its upper course) and has a drainage basin of ...

and the Nordvik Peninsula.

Nordvik Bay Nordvik Bay (; , ''Nordvik xomoto'') 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. ...

lies further west of it, beyond Cape Paksa at the tip of the peninsula.

Geography

Anabar Bay opens towards the north and it is about 76 km in width. It includes the estuary of the Anabar River which is about 40 km long with an average width of 10 km. Three rivers have their mouths at the beginning of the estuary, the Anabar in the center, the Uele from the east, and the

Suolama The Suolama (, ''Suolema''; ) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Anabar with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, from the Taymyrsky ...

from the southwest. The climate is Arctic and extremely severe, with prolonged, bitter winters so that the bay is covered by ice most of the year. Anabar Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the

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Fauna

The Sibirskaya ryapushka fish often arrives in great numbers to the mouth of river Anabar.Fishes at river mouth
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History

Baron Eduard Von Toll explored the Anabar Bay region in 1893. At that time it was a very little-known area of the Russian Arctic. He was the first one to map the plateau between the Anabar and

Popigay River The Popigay () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is 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 in October and breaks ...

s. There were two settlements in the Anabar Bay area, during

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times. One was Khorgo, at the mouth of the bay, and the other Tostuya, further inland at the point where the estuarine area begins.

References

Geology

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)

Pictures of the Bay
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Geography

Fauna

History

See also

References

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