Terezy Klavenes Bay – wedges into the Taymyr Peninsula in the southwest direction for approximately 46 km. It is funnel-shaped. The width is up to 16 km. In the outer part of the bay, small islands from the Vilkitsky and the Komsomolskaya Pravda groups of islands are located. The southeast coast of T.K.B. is formed by the northwest shore of the peninsula with narrow Cape Lassiniusa jutting out into the sea for almost 7 km. The shores are mostly flat, boggy, and covered with tundra vegetation. Several small rivers flow into the bay, the largest from them being the Goltsovaya River. The bay is covered with ice for the most part of the year.
The coast of the bay is part of the “Chelyuskin Peninsula” of the Big Arctic Reserve.
The T.K.B. was first seen from a distance by V.V. Prontchishchev in August 1736, who mistook it for the mouth of the Taymyr River. The Kh. Laptev expedition which took place in the 1730s knew about the bay.
The bay was first mapped in 1742 by a participant of the...
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(2016). Terezy Klavenes Bay. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_522
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