Gizhigin Bay
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Gizhigin Bay or Gyzhigin Bay (Gizhiginskaya Guba) is a wide bay northwest of Kamchatka, Russia
. It is an upper left arm of Shelikhov Bay
in the NE corner of the Sea of Okhotsk
. The east side is the Tygonos Peninsula which separates it from the long and narrow Penzhin Bay. It is about 260 by 148km, has a maximum depth of 88 meters and maximum tides of over 9 meters. The coast is steep and rocky in contrast to the flatter country further east.
The settlement of Evensk is located on the shores of this bay.
The Pacific herring
is common in its waters.
The Gizhiga River is about 145km long and flows east and then south into the bay.
Gizhiga Town, founded in 1752, is on the left bank of the Gizhiga River about 25km from its mouth. About 1866 it dominated the trade in the area between Okhotsk
and Anadyrsk
. There were 50 or 60 log houses, a Russian governor and four or five merchants. It was visited annually by a government supply steamer and by American merchant vessels.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. It is an upper left arm of Shelikhov Bay
Shelikhov Bay
The Shelikhov Gulf is a large gulf off the northwestern coast of Kamchatka, Russia. It is located in the NE corner of the Sea of Okhotsk and it branches into two main arms, the Gizhigin Bay on the west and the Penzhin Bay on the east...
in the NE corner of the Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and...
. The east side is the Tygonos Peninsula which separates it from the long and narrow Penzhin Bay. It is about 260 by 148km, has a maximum depth of 88 meters and maximum tides of over 9 meters. The coast is steep and rocky in contrast to the flatter country further east.
The settlement of Evensk is located on the shores of this bay.
The Pacific herring
Pacific herring
The Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. This species is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin...
is common in its waters.
The Gizhiga River is about 145km long and flows east and then south into the bay.
Gizhiga Town, founded in 1752, is on the left bank of the Gizhiga River about 25km from its mouth. About 1866 it dominated the trade in the area between Okhotsk
Okhotsk
Okhotsk is an urban locality and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Okhotsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Population: 4,470 ;...
and Anadyrsk
Anadyrsk
thumb|Anadyrsk was on the east-west part of the Anadyr River at the point where it swings northAnadyrsk was an important Russian ostrog in far northeastern Siberia from 1649 to 1764...
. There were 50 or 60 log houses, a Russian governor and four or five merchants. It was visited annually by a government supply steamer and by American merchant vessels.