Key facts
- Location
- Far North
- River sources
- Khatanga River
- Ocean sea sources
- Laptev Sea
- Basin countries
- Russia
- Max length
- 220 kilometres (140 mi)
- Max width
- 54 kilometres (34 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bay
- Part of
- Laptev Sea
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- Kara sea2KH.PNG
Show 4 more facts
- described by source
- Geographical statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire
- inflows
- Khatanga
- native label
- Хатанга өрүс
- vertical depth
- 29
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Khatanga Gulf or Khatanga Bay (Russian: Хатангский залив) is a large tidal estuary in the Laptev Sea. It is relatively narrow, its length being 220 kilometres (140 mi) with a maximum width of 54 kilometres (34 mi).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khatanga Gulf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.