Kola Bay
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bay of the Barents Sea in Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bay
- Part of
- Barents Sea
- Named after
- Kola
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Murmansk Oblast
- Image
- Мурманская гавань.jpg
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- native label
- Кольский залив
- Commons category
- Kola Bay
- vertical depth
- 300
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Encyclopedic overview
1598 map of Kola Bay, from Gerrit de Veer's diary of Willem Barentsz' explorations.
Kola Bay (Russian: Кольский залив) or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula. It is up to 7 km wide and has a depth of 200 to 300 metres. The Tuloma, Rosta and Kola Rivers discharge into the bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kola Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.