Chosha Bay

Aerial view of the Gulf (2006)

Location of the Kanin Peninsula. The Tschoscha Bay in the southeast

The Tschoscha Bay (Russian Чёшская губа, also transcribed Czech Saddle Bay ) is a bay or a gulf of the Barents Sea of the Arctic Ocean in Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast (more precisely, in the Autonomous District of the Nenets ) between the east coast of the Kanin Peninsula and the opposite mainland.

Geography

The Golf is an oval with a width of 130 km and a height of 110 km. The opening to the Barents Sea, in front of at a distance of 100 km, the island Kolgujew lies between Cape Mikulkin and Barmin Headland is about 50 km wide. There, the sea depth is 55 m, otherwise it is less than 50 m, with a number of shoals and sandbanks 2-3 m depth. In the Gulf lead many rivers, including Grandma, Tschoscha, Peshawar, Indiga and Wischas.

In the fish -rich Gulf lives an endemic subspecies of the herring, the so-called Tschoscha - Pechora herring (Clupea palasii suworovi ).

The Tschoscha Bay is one of the historic bays of Russia, the whole area has the status of a domestic Russian waters.

Maps

  • Journal NQ 37-4 and 37-8 from the NQ series of maps of Eastern Europe to the National Geospatial Intelligence of Cartographic U.S. military service. Series 501 1954. 1:250 scale 000
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