Buor-Khaya Gulf | |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Buor-Khaya Gulf |
Image Bathymetry: | Siberia BUO.png |
Location: | Far North |
Coords: | 71.3333°N 180°W |
Rivers: | Omoloy River |
Oceans: | Laptev Sea |
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.