Buor-Khaya Gulf

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.

Buor-Khaya Gulf
Buor-Khaya Gulf Location of the Buor-Khaya Gulf
Location	Far North
Coordinates	71°20′N 130°50′E
Native name	Губа Буор-Хая
River sources	Omoloy River
Ocean/sea sources	Laptev Sea
Basin countries	Russia

There is an abandoned polar station in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.[1]

Geography

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.

See also

• List of research stations in the Arctic

References

1. Deserted Buor-Khaya Polar Station
2. Google Earth
3. Muostakh Island erosion (with pictures)

External links

• "Clay Minerals in Sediments of the Arctic Seas". doi:10.1023/A:1010414305264. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Structure and tectonic evolution of the Southern Eurasia Basin, Arctic Ocean". doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00278-5. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Seismic Arctic Earthquakes