Tiksi Bay (russian: Бухта Тикси, ''Bukhta Tiksi'') is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
of the
Laptev Sea
The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, th ...
that cuts into the northern part of 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 ...
,
Russia
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.
History
This bay was first surveyed by Russian Arctic explorer
Dmitry Laptev
Dmitry Yakovlevich Laptev (russian: Дмитрий Яковлевич Лаптев) (1701 - ) was a Russian Arctic explorer and Vice Admiral (1762). The Dmitry Laptev Strait is named in his honor and the Laptev Sea is named in honor of him and ...
in 1739. It was then called "Gorely Bay". The name "Tiksi Bay" was adopted in 1878.
There is a cross at Tiksi Bay marking the place of death of U. S. whaling captain
Thomas Long.
[Soviet Life, Issues 7-12]
Geography
The bay is up to 21 km long, 17 km wide
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and has a depth of 2 to 11 metres. The
Sogo and
Yuryage Rivers discharge into the bay.
The port of
Tiksi
Tiksi ( rus, Ти́кси, , ˈtʲiksʲɪ; sah, Тиксии, ''Tiksii'' – lit. ''a moorage place'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located o ...
lies on the west side.
Semidiurnal tide
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Tide tables can ...
s in the Kola Bay are about 0.3 metres. In winter the bay is clogged by ice.
References
* ''This article is based on a translation of the
equivalent article of the
Russian Wikipedia on 11 February 2009''.
Bays of the Laptev Sea
Bays of the Sakha Republic
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