Gedenshtrom Bay – (the Yakit name is Gedenshtrom Khomoto) a bay in the East Siberian Sea on the southern shore of Kotelnyi Island (the New Siberian Islands). The entrance to it is situated between Zemlya Bunge and the Faddeevskiy Peninsula. The bay is open to the south and penetrates the island for 110 km. The width at the entrance is about 12 km. The depth is 14 m. The rivers Peschanaya, Buor-Yuryakh, Kozhevennaya, Tumara-Yuryak, Tumus-Yuryakh, Uesya-Yuryakh, Alyn-Yuryakh, Erge-Yuryakh, Omuk-Munna, Yuzhnaya and others flow into the bay. Kotordyr and Tas-Ary Islands are situated in the bay. At the exit there are Neizvestnye Islands. The coast of the bay as well as the whole of Kotelnyi Island is uninhabited.
It was named after the explorer of Nort Siberia M.M. Gedenshtrom, who arrived at Faddeevskiy Island in 1809 together with a surveyor Kozhin and a town citizen Sannikov and ordered the later to explore the strait between Faddeevskiy Island and Kotelnyi Island. Sannikov crossed the...
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(2016). Gedenshtrom 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_70005
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