Krenkel Bay
Бухта Кренкеля
View of the shore of Krenkel Bay
Landsat image of Komsomolets island
Krenkel Bay is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krenkel Bay
Krenkel Bay
Location in Krasnoyarsk Krai
LocationKomsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Coordinates80°30′N 97°50′E / 80.500°N 97.833°E / 80.500; 97.833
Ocean/sea sourcesLaptev Sea
Basin countriesRussia
Max. length11 km (6.8 mi)[1]
Max. width25 km (16 mi)
IslandsOzerny Island

Krenkel Bay (Russian: Бухта Кренкеля, romanized: Bukhta Krenkelya)[2] is a bay in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.[1]

History

This bay was discovered by the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev. Decades later, in 1973, this bay was named after Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator Ernst Krenkel (1903–1971).[3]

Geography

Krenkel Bay is a body of water in the northeastern area of Komsomolets Island, the northernmost island of Severnaya Zemlya.[4]

The bay is open to the southeast. It is regular in shape and has a width of about 25 km (16 mi). The edge of the massive Academy of Sciences Glacier runs all along the western shore, while the northern shoreline is bound by a stretch of unglaciated area.[1] Ozerny Island lies close to the northeastern headland of the bay.[5]

Another view of Krenkel Bay

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 GoogleEarth
  2. ↑ "Bukhta Krenkelya". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Архипелаг Северная Земля — один из наиболее крупных районов оледенения на территории России
  4. ↑ Map U-47-XXXI,XXXII,XXXIII бух. Кренкеля. Scale: 1 : 200 000. Состояние местности на 1988 год. Издание 1992 г.
  5. ↑ Russian map T-48-VII,VIII,IX - Т-47,48


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