Weitsch Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay

Avacha Bay () is a

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bay on the southeastern coast of the

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. It is long and wide (at the mouth), with a maximum depth of . The Avacha River flows into the bay. The port city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the

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of Vilyuchinsk lie on the coast of the bay. It is the main transport gateway to the Kamchatka region. The bay freezes in the winter. It was first discovered by

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in 1729. It was surveyed and mapped by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov of the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1830s. Avacha Bay was the scene of a massive die-off of

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marine organisms in September–October 2020.

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The Avacha Bay is unique in that it is among the largest bays in the world able to fit any ship in the world. It is an internal part of Avacha Gulf. Its total area is 215 square kilometers, and it is up to 26 meters deep. The main rivers flowing into the bay are the Avacha and Paratunka. It is the home base of the Russian Pacific fleet.

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