Buor-Khaya Gulf | |
---|---|
Губа Буор-Хая ( Russian) | |
Location | Far North |
Coordinates | 71°20′N 130°50′E / 71.333°N 130.833°E |
River sources | Omoloy River |
Ocean/sea sources | Laptev Sea |
Basin countries | Russia |
The Buor-Khaya Gulf or Buor-Khaya Bight ( Russian: Губа Буор-Хая) is one of the most important gulfs of the Laptev Sea. Administratively the Buor-Khaya Gulf belongs to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation.
There is an abandoned polar station in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf. [1]
It lies at the western end of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, between the eastern side of the Lena delta on its western side and Cape Buor-Khaya at its NE end. Tiksi Bay and the Bykovsky Peninsula are on the western shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf. [2]
Heavily eroded Muostakh Island, the remainder of an ancient great plain, is located roughly in the midst of the gulf. [3]
The Omoloy River is the only large river flowing into the Buor-Khaya Gulf, its mouth is located halfway up the eastern coast. The sea in this gulf is frozen for about nine months every year and often clogged with ice floes.