The Buor-Khaya Gulf or Buor-Khaya Bight (russian: Губа Буор-Хая) is one of the most important gulfs 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 ...

. 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

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. There is an abandoned

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in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.

Geography

It lies at the western end of the

Yana-Indigirka Lowland The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (russian: Яно-Индигирская низменность; sah, Дьааҥы - Индигир намтала) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Admini ...

, between the eastern side of the

Lena delta The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean ...

on its western side and

Cape Buor-Khaya Cape Buor Khaya, (russian: Мыс Буор-Хая; ''Mys Buor-Khaya'') is a headland in the Laptev Sea. Geography It is located between the Buor-Khaya Gulf on the west and the Yana Bay on the east. It is a conspicuous headland and has an 11 m ...

at its NE end.

Tiksi Bay Tiksi Bay (russian: Бухта Тикси, ''Bukhta Tiksi'') is a bay of the Laptev Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Sakha Republic, Russia. History This bay was first surveyed by Russian Arctic explorer Dmitry Laptev in 1739. It was t ...

and the

Bykovsky Peninsula Bykovsky (masculine), Bykovskaya (feminine), or Bykovskoye (neuter) may refer to: * Bykovsky District, a district of Volgograd Oblast, Russia * Bykovsky (rural locality), name of several rural localities in Russia * Bykovsky channel, a major distrib ...

are on the western shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.

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Heavily eroded

Muostakh Island Muostakh Island (Russian: Остров Муостах), also spelled "Mostakh", is an island in the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea. It is located off the eastern side of the Lena delta, enclosing the Tiksi Bay, about 35 km ESE of Tiksi. ...

, 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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Omoloy River The Omoloy (russian: Омолой sah, Омолой) is a river in Siberia, flowing into the Laptev Sea east of the river Lena. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Administratively the basin of the Omoloy is part of the Sakha (Yakutia) adm ...

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.

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