Zhuravlev Bay
{{Short description|Bay in Russia}}
{{Infobox body of water
| name= Zhuravlev Bay
| native_name={{native name|ru|залив Журавлева}}
| other_name=
| image= Zhurawljow-Bucht 2 2014-09-01.jpg
| caption = View of the shore of Zhuravlev Bay
| image_bathymetry = KomsomoletsIsland Terra MODIS.png
| caption_bathymetry = Terra-MODIS image of Komsomolets island
| pushpin_map = Russia Krasnoyarsk Krai
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Krasnoyarsk Krai
| location=Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai
| coords= {{coord|80|38|N|92|48|E|region:GL_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}}
| oceans= Kara Sea
| countries= Russia
| length={{convert|17|km|abbr=on}}
| width={{convert|10|km|abbr=on}}
| area=
| depth=
| islands=Shar Island
}}
Zhuravlev Bay ({{langx|ru|залив Журавлева}}, Zaliv Zhuravleva){{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/15426510|title=Zaliv Zhuravlëva|work=Mapcarta|access-date=24 December 2016}} is a bay in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.GoogleEarth This bay is blocked by ice most of the year.
History
This bay was named by the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev after Soviet Arctic explorer, invaluable member of the expedition and veteran surveyor Sergei Prokopyevich Zhuravlev (1892–1937).[http://my.krskstate.ru/docs/relief/arkhipelag-severnaya-zemlya/ Архипелаг Северная Земля — один из наиболее крупных районов оледенения на территории России]
Geography
Zhuravlev Bay is a body of water in the northeastern area of Komsomolets Island, the northernmost island of Severnaya Zemlya.[http://mapu4748.narod.ru/map2/indexu473133.html Map U-47-XXXI,XXXII,XXXIII бух. Кренкеля. Scale: 1 : 200 000. Состояние местности на 1988 год. Издание 1992 г.][http://www.intaari.ru/ru/tourism/arctic-tourism/zaliv-zhuravleva.html Залив Журавлева. Остров Комсомолец]
The bay is open to the Kara Sea in the southwest. It has a maximum width at its mouth of about {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}}, steadily narrowing towards the inner bay. The edge of the massive Academy of Sciences Glacier runs all along the eastern shore, while the northwestern shoreline is bound by a stretch of unglaciated area with Shar Island, {{convert|1|km|abbr=on}} in diameter, at the end of the headland.
File:Zhurawljow-Bucht 3 2014-09-01.jpg reaching the shore.]]
Further reading
- [http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/1014681/Urvancev_-_Dva_goda_na_severnoy_zemle.html Два года на Северной Земле] (Two years in Severnaya Zemlya)
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.gpavet.narod.ru/Names1/juravlev.htm Журавлев Сергей Прокопьевич (08(20).10.1892–26.11.1937)]
- [http://polarpost.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5612 Polarpost - Журавлев Сергей Прокопьевич (1892–1937)]
- [https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:166630/FULLTEXT01.pdf Eurasian Arctic Tectonics - DiVA]
Category:Bays of Severnaya Zemlya
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