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Avacha Bay (russian: Авачинская губа, Авачинская бухта) is a Space Study of a Red Tide-Related Environmental Disaster near Kamchatka Peninsula in September–October 2020
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Avacha Bay (russian: Авачинская губа, Авачинская бухта) is a Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the conti ...
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, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...
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 w ...
. 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 and the closed town
A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. Such places may be sensitive military establishments or secret research ins ...
of 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 in 1729. It was surveyed and mapped by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov 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 ...
in the 1830s.
Avacha Bay has been the scene of massive die-off of benthic
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning " ...
marine organisms in September-October 2020. /ref>
Description
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. 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.See also
* Tri Brata – "Three brothers", a major landmark in the bayReferences
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