Buor-Khaya Gulf

71°20′N 130°50′E / 71.333°N 130.833°E / 71.333; 130.833River sourcesOmoloy RiverOcean/sea sourcesLaptev SeaBasin countriesRussia

The Buor-Khaya Gulf or Buor-Khaya Bight (Russian: Губа Буор-Хая) is one of the most important gulfs of the Laptev Sea. Administratively the Buor-Khaya Gulf belongs to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation.

There is an abandoned polar station in the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.^[1]

It lies at the western end of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, between the eastern side of the Lena delta on its western side and Cape Buor-Khaya at its NE end. Tiksi Bay and the Bykovsky Peninsula are on the western shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf.^[2]

Heavily eroded Muostakh Island, the remainder of an ancient great plain, is located roughly in the midst of the gulf.^[3]

The Omoloy River is the only large river flowing into the Buor-Khaya Gulf, its mouth is located halfway up the eastern coast. The sea in this gulf is frozen for about nine months every year and often clogged with ice floes.

• List of research stations in the Arctic

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• Seismic Arctic Earthquakes