Amur Bay

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Amur Bay
Waters Japanese sea
Land mass East asia
Geographical location 43 ° 6 ′  N , 131 ° 44 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 6 ′  N , 131 ° 44 ′  E
Amur Bay (Primorye Region)
Amur Bay
width 20 km
depth 65 km
Greatest water depth 20 m
Tributaries Suifun
Muravyov Amurski Peninsula with Amur Bay (left), Landsat 7 satellite image

Muravyov Amurski Peninsula with Amur Bay (left), Landsat 7 satellite image

The Amur Bay ( Russian Амурский залив ) is a bay in the Sea of ​​Japan .

The 65 kilometer long and nine to 20 kilometer wide bay is located west of Vladivostok in the northwest of Peter the Great Bay .

The depth of the Amur Bay, into which the Suifun (in Russian Rasdolnaja since the 1970s ) flows, is up to 20 meters. The bay has no geographical connection with the Amur River , but was named after the Amur River when the region became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.

In the east the bay borders on the Muravjow-Amurski peninsula with Vladivostok, which separates it from the Ussuri Bay , and in the northeast lies the city of Artyom . In the northwest and west, the bay borders on the Nadeschdinski and Chassan districts .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Meyer's continents and seas", Volume 7, p. 88