Amur Bay

Murawjow - Amur Peninsula with Amurbucht (left), Landsat -7 satellite image

The Amurbucht (Russian Амурский залив ) is a bay in Sea of ​​Japan.

The 65 km long and nine to 20 kilometers wide bay located west of Vladivostok in the north- west of the Peter- the - Great Bay.

The depth of the Amurbucht in which the Suifun flows (in Russian since the 1970s Rasdolnaja ) is, up to 20 meters. The bay is geographically unrelated to the Amur River, but was in the course of connecting the region to the Russian Empire in the 19th century named after this.

In the East Bay, is adjacent to the Murawjow - Amur Peninsula with Vladivostok, which separates it from the Ussuribucht, and in the north east is the town of Artyom. In the north- west and west of the bay adjacent to the Rajons Nadeschdinski and Khasan.