Avacha Bay
Sign in to savePacific Ocean bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula; inner part of Avacha Gulf
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- Instance of
- bay
- Part of
- Bering Sea
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- АвачинскаяБухтаКамчатка.jpg
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- Avacha Bay
- vertical depth
- 26
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Encyclopedic overview
Petropavlovsk and Koryaksky Volcano, as seen from Avacha Bay Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806, National Museum in WarsawAvacha Bay (Russian: Авачинская губа, Авачинская бухта) is a Pacific Ocean bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is 24 km (15 mi) long and 3 km (2 mi) wide (at the mouth), with a maximum depth of 26 m (85 ft).
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avacha Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.