Chatanga Golf
| Chatanga Golf Chatanga Bay |
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 Laptewsee (top right) u. a. with northeastern part of Chatanga Gulf (left), Nordwikbucht (center), Groß-Begitschew-Insel (top center), Anabar gulf (right), Anabar bay (south of it) and large Taimyr peninsula (top left) |
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| Waters | Laptev Lake | |
| Land mass | North Asia, Bolshoi Begichev Island |
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| Geographical location | 73 ° 41 ′ N , 108 ° 52 ′ E | |
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| width | 54 km | |
| length | 220 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 29 m | |
| Islands | Bolshoi Begichev , Maly Begichev , Preobrazheniye Island | |
| Tributaries | Chatanga , Sanga-Jurjach , Tikjan-Jurjach , Gusicha , Great Balachnja , Senka , Novaja , Podkamennaja | |
 Arctic Ocean with Chatanga Gulf (framed in red) belonging to the Laptev Sea on the north coast of Siberia with the Taimyr Peninsula to the north |
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The Chatangagolf ( Russian Хатангский залив , Chatangski-Gulf), also called Chatanga Bay (Бухта Хатангский, Chatangski-Guba) is a gulf of the Laptev Sea ( Arctic Ocean ) located in the northern part of Siberia and Russia ( Asia ) and forms the estuary of the Chatanga , a stream of the North Siberian lowlands . Most of it belongs to the northeast of the Krasnoyarsk region , while small parts belong to the northwest of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Geographical location
The Chatanga Golf extends directly southeast of the Taimyr Peninsula , on which the Byrranga Mountains , which are far from the gulf, are located, and separates them from the North Siberian lowlands. It particularly absorbs the Chatanga stream coming from the south-west from the lowlands, whose water flows through the Gulf northeast into the Laptev Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. The transition from Chatanga to the Gulf is the imaginary line ( ⊙ ) between western Cape Turupkin and eastern Great Cape Korga . The much further northeast peninsula located Chara Tumus with their side peninsula Urjung-Tumus separates the khatanga gulf from the east of the peninsula located Nordwikbucht ; south of the peninsula is the Koschewnikowabucht as the largest side bay .
Most of the Khatanga Gulf belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) also has a share in the Gulf within the framework of the Koschevnikova Bay. The borders of both run through two straits that connect the Gulf with the Laptev Sea: the one to the north of the uninhabited Greater Begichev Island is the Severny Strait , about 13 km wide , which leads northeast into the Laptev Sea, and that south of the island is the around 8 km wide Vostochny Strait , which also leads to the Laptevsee with the Anabar gulf . At the western beginning of both straits is the also uninhabited Little Begichev Island . In addition to the Khatanga flowing from the southwest, Sanga-Jurjach and Tikjan-Jurjach flow into the Gulf or its side bays in the east and Gusicha , Grosse Balachnja , Senka , Nowaja and Podkamennaja in the west. A few kilometers above the transition from the Chatanga to the Chatangagolf, the Popigai flows into the Chatanga from the east, which is around 10 km wide directly below its mouth.
The sea golf is about 220 km long, a maximum of 54 km wide and in two places in the southwest part up to about 34 m deep. The coastal hills on the east coast of the Gulf are a maximum of 84 m high near the Great Cape Korga and those on its west coast reach a height of 73 m south of the Stony Estuary ; there is a 122 m high elevation on the northern Urjung-Tumus peninsula .
Localities
The settlement Novorybnaja ( ⊙ ) lies above the influence of the Khatanga in the Khatanga Gulf and the settlement of Syndassko ( ⊙ ) on the south coast of the Gulf near the small Syndassko Bay .
Fauna, climate and ice
In the hinterland of the vegetation-free and in many places quite high, steep and rugged coasts of the Chatanga Gulf, tundra with mosses and lichens predominate, with frost rubble deserts extending to the beaches. The winters are long and extremely cold, the summers short and cold. The Gulf is covered in ice from around September to July . When the ice and snow melt in summer , the Chantanga often drives floods into the Gulf.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Topographic map (1: 200.000, Bl. S-48-XXIX, XXX, edition 1986), Chatangagolf-Südwestteil (above) on detailed map and a. with Chatanga mouth at the transition from river to gulf between Cape Turupkin and Big Cape Korga (top left), Popigai mouth (below; river coming from the right) into Chatanga on maps48.narod.ru (with heights above sea level)
- ↑ a b c Topographic map (1: 1,000,000, p. S-49,50, ed. 1987), Chatangagolf-northeast part (center left) and a. with Laptev Sea (top right), Nordwikbucht (center), wholesale Begichev Island (top center), Anabar Bay (right below), Anabarbucht (south of it), Olenjok -Mündung (far right) and large Taimyr peninsula (top left) on maps49 .narod.ru (with heights above sea level)
- ↑ a b Article Chatangagolf in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Topographic map (1: 200.000, Bl. S-49-XV, XVI, Ed. 1987), section of the Chatangagolf north-eastern part (center left) and a. with Little Begichev Island (center) and Greater Begichev Island (right), Taimyr Peninsula (top left), Stony Estuary (ditto), Chara Tumus Peninsula (center, bottom right) and parts of the Severny Straits (top right ) and Vostochny (bottom right) on maps49.narod.ru (with heights above sea level)