The Buzachi Peninsula ( kk, Бозащы түбегі, ''Bozaşy tübegı''; russian: Полуостров Бузачи) is a
peninsula
A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...
located in western
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. It borders on the
Mangyshlak Bay of the
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ...
in the west and with the
Mangyshlak Peninsula
Mangyshlak or Mangghyshlaq Peninsula ( kk, Маңғыстау түбегі, translit=Mañğystau tübegı; russian: Полуостров Мангышла́к, translit=Poluostrov Mangyshlák) is a large peninsula located in western Kazakhstan. It ...
in the southwest. The
Dead Kultuk
The Dead Kultuk ( kk, Өлі қолтық шығанағы ''Ölı qoltyq şyğanağy''; russian: Мёртвый Култук) is a bay of the Caspian Sea in the coast of Kazakhstan, west of the Ustyurt desert.
The bay was known as 'Tsesarevich ...
lies to the northeast and the narrow
Kaydak Inlet forms its eastern limit.
Durneva Island lies to the north and the
Tyuleniy Archipelago lies off the western shores of the peninsula.
Administratively the Buzachi Peninsula is part of Kazakhstan's
Mangystau Province. Currently it is a new
oil exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth using petroleum geology.
Exploration methods
Vis ...
area.
This peninsula is a vast low-lying depression with
salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is dominated ...
es and salt lakes. Parts of it lie between 20 and 30 m below sea level, lower than the Caspian. The area provides an important habitat for thousands of
Goitered Gazelles.
[David P. Mallon & Steven Charles Kingswood, ''Antelopes: Part 4 - North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: Global Survey And Regional Action Plans (Pt. 4)'' p. 137]
Cartography
The area was mapped by
Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov during the
Caspian Expedition, which surveyed the Caspian Sea from 1719 to 1727.
[Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, ''The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia'', p. 156]
See also
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Oil megaprojects (2003)
References
External links
The wildlife of Mangyshlak
Crude oils from new fields of the Buzachi Peninsula
Peninsulas of Kazakhstan
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