Sellyakh Bay (; ) is a bay in

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There are no settlements in the bay area, the nearest inhabited place is Tumat to the south. Formerly there was a temporary

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in Makar Island.

Geography

The bay opens to the north in the eastern shores of the

Yana Bay The Yana Bay (; ''Yanskiy Zaliv'') is a body of water in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russian Federation. It is the most important gulf of the Laptev Sea. Geography The bay is located between Cape Buor-Khaya in the west and Ebelyakh Bay in th ...

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. It is located northeast of the mouths of the

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and southeast of the

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and Shelonsky Islands. The Manyko Peninsula encloses the bay to the northwest and to the north the bay is limited by a narrow spit with Cape Turuktakh at the end.Селляхская губа
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Hydrography

The long

Sellyakh The Sellyakh ( or Сельлях; , ''Sielleex'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It has a length of —counting the length of the Ilin-Sellyakh (Илин-Сыалаах) at its head— and a drainage basin area of . The rive ...

and the long Muksunuokha (Максунуоха) are the main rivers with their mouths in the bay. Other rivers flowing into it are the long Bilir (Билир), the long Danilkina (Данилкина) and the long Kyulyumelyakh (Кюлюмэлээх). The shores of the bay are fringed by

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. They are low and in parts boggy, part of a flat region dotted with lakes.nature.ykt - Селляхская губа
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Fishing & Tourism in Yakutia
Bays of the Sakha Republic Bays of the Laptev Sea East Siberian Lowland {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

Geography

Hydrography

See also

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