Yahorlyk Bay
46°24′N 31°49′E / 46.400°N 31.817°E / 46.400; 31.817Ocean/sea sources Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Ukraine Max. length 26 km (16 mi) Max. width 15 km (9.3 mi) Max. depth 5 m (16 ft) Salinity 14-15 ‰ Frozen only during unusually harsh winters Islands Dovhyi Island, Kruhlyi Island Ramsar sites Recent (2013) addition Potential wetlands
Yahorlyk Bay (Ukrainian: Ягорлицька затока) is a shallow water bay near the coast of Ukraine (between peninsulas Yahorlyk Kut and Kinburn peninsula), northern Black Sea. The bay is separated from the sea by chain of islands Dovhyi and Kruhlyi. It is separated from the Gulf of Tendra by Yahorlyk Kut, and from the Dnieper-Bug estuary by the Kinburn Peninsula.
The water body has 26 km long, 15 km wide, up to 5 m depth.
References
External links
- Yahorlyk Bay at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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Wetlands of Ukraine
- Bakota Bay
- Berdiansk Bay areas
- Bilosaraisk Bay areas
- Chapli Depression
- Cheremske Mire
- Kilia branch
- Desna Floodplains
- Dnieper Delta
- Dnieper-Oril
- Dniester Estuary
- Dniester Valley
- Dniester-Turunchuk
- Karadag shores
- Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays
- Kartal Lake
- Kazantyp shores
- Kremenchuk Floodplains
- Kryva Bay areas
- Kuhurlui
- Molochnyi Lyman
- Obytichna Bay areas
- Opuk shores
- Perebrody Peat Bogs
- Polissia Marshes
- Upper Prut River
- Prypiat Floodplains
- Sasyk Lagoon
- Shahany-Alibei-Burnas
- Shatskyi Lakes
- Smotrych River
- Stokhid River
- Central Synevyr
- Eastern Synevyr
- Gulf of Tendra
- Tylihul Estuary
- Yahorlyk Bay
- Syra Pohonia
- Sim Mayakiv Floodplains
- Somyne Fen
- Velyki and Mali Kuchuhury Archipelago
- Bile Ozero/Koza-Berezyna Fen
- Druzhba Cave
- Dniester River
- Narcissus Valley
- Prut Headwaters
- Pohorilets Headwaters
- Sian Raised Bog
- Burshtyn Reservoir
- Atak-Borzhava Wetlands
- Kleban-Byk
- Kakhovka Reservoir
- Bilenko-Rozumovskyi Floodplains
- Siverskyi Donets Floodplains
- Sula Bay
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