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
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...
(Yakutia) of the
Russian Federation
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.
There is an abandoned
polar station in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.
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.
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Heavily eroded
Muostakh Island, the remainder of an ancient great plain, is located roughly in the midst of the gulf.
Muostakh Island erosion (with pictures)
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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
A number of governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic. Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed across the northern polar region of Earth.
Historically few research st ...
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Seismic Arctic Earthquakes
Gulfs of Russia
Gulfs of the Laptev Sea
Bays of the Sakha Republic
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