The Pyasina Bay , also known as Pyasina Gulf, (russian: Пясинский залив; ''Pyasinsky Zaliv'') is a bay at the mouth of the river
Pyasina in the
Kara Sea. It is limited on its western side by the
Kamennyye Islands
The Kamennye Islands or Kammenny Islands (russian: Каменные Острова; Kamennye Ostrova) is a group of islands in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation.
Geography
The islands lie off the coast of Siberia, west of the mouths of river Pyasin ...
and on its northeastern side by the
Minina Skerries
The Minina Skerries (Russian: Шхеры Минина; ''Shkhery Minina'') are located in the Kara Sea, in the northwestern shores of Siberia. They stretch between the Mikhailov Peninsula and the mouths of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is bet ...
.
The Pyasina Bay is surrounded by tundra coast. It is full of islands and island groups, foremost of which are the
Zveroboy group (Zapadnyy, Malyy, Severnyy), the small Trio Island group and the Ptich'i Islands, the
Labyrintovyye Islands
The Labyrintovye Islands (Russian: Лабиринтовые острова; ''Labyrintovye Ostrova'') is a group of flat islands in the Pyasina Bay of the Kara Sea. They are located at the mouth of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is 73° 50' N ...
, right at the large mouth of the river, the Begichevskaya Kosa string of islands and Farvaternyy Island.
The climate in the area is severe, with long and bitter winters and frequent blizzards and gales. The bay is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes.
The Pyasina Bay was explored by
Baron Eduard von Toll
Eduard Gustav Freiherr von Toll (russian: Эдуа́рд Васи́льевич Толль, translit=Eduárd Vasíl'evič Toll'; 1902), better known in Russia as Eduard Vasilyevich Toll and often referred to as Baron von Toll, was a Russian ge ...
during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900–1903.
References
*
William Barr, ''The Last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, 1919''.
* William Barr, Baron Eduard von Toll's Last Expedition.
External links
* Freight map
Bays of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Bays of the Kara Sea
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