Английская Википедия:Avacha Bay
Avacha Bay (Шаблон:Lang-ru) is a Pacific Ocean bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide (at the mouth), with a maximum depth of Шаблон:Convert.[1]
The Avacha River flows into the bay. The port city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the closed town of Vilyuchinsk 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 in the 1830s.[2]
Avacha Bay has been the scene of massive die-off of benthic marine organisms in September–October 2020.[3][4][5]
Description
The Avacha Bay is uiquqe in that it is among the largest bays in the world able to fit any ship in the world.Шаблон:Citation needed 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 bay
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