Weitsch Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay

Avacha Bay (russian: Авачинская губа, Авачинская бухта) is a

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bay on the southeastern coast of the

Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and we ...

. It is long and wide (at the mouth), with a maximum depth of . The

Avacha River Avacha () is a river in the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It flows southeast into Avacha Bay, near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The river is long with a watershed of . Nineteenth-century travelers like George Kennan ascended t ...

flows into the bay. The port city of

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ( rus, Петропавловск-Камчатский, a=Петропавловск-Камчатский.ogg, p=pʲɪtrɐˈpavləfsk kɐmˈtɕatskʲɪj) is a city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultur ...

and the

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Vilyuchinsk Vilyuchinsk (russian: Вилючинск) is a closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula about across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: History It was founded as Sovetsky () on October ...

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

Vitus Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741),All dates are here given in the Julian calendar, which was in use throughout Russia at the time. also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in ...

in 1729. It was surveyed and mapped by Captain

Mikhail Tebenkov Mikhail Dmitriyevich Tebenkov (russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Тебеньков; also Tebenkof; 1802 – April 3, 1872) was a Russian hydrographer and vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. From 1845 to 1850, he served as directo ...

of the

Imperial Russian Navy The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a ...

in the 1830s. Avacha Bay has been the scene of massive die-off of

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marine organisms in September-October 2020. Space Study of a Red Tide-Related Environmental Disaster near Kamchatka Peninsula in September–October 2020
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The Avacha Bay is one of the largest bays in the world able to fit any ship in the world. It is an internal part of

Avacha Gulf Avacha may refer to: *Avacha Bay, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia * Avacha (river), Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia * Avacha Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, also called Avachinsky Avachinsky (also known as Avacha or Avacha Volcano or Avachinskaya ...

. Total area is 215 square kilometers. Depth – up to 26 meters. Main rivers flowing into the bay – Avacha and Paratunka. It is the home base of the Russian Pacific fleet.

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Bays of Kamchatka Krai Bays of the Pacific Ocean Bodies of water of the Kamchatka Peninsula Pacific Coast of Russia Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula Calderas of Russia Extinct volcanoes Submarine calderas 2020 disasters in Russia {{KamchatkaKrai-geo-stub

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