Avacha Bay ( Russian : Авачинская губа, Авачинская бухта ) is a Pacific Ocean bay on the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula . It is 24 km (15 mi) long and 3 km (2 mi) wide (at the mouth), with a maximum depth of 26 m (85 ft).
4-580: The Avacha River flows into the bay. The port city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the closed town of Vilyuchinsk lie on the coast of the bay. It is the main transport gateway to the Kamchatka region. The bay freezes in the winter. It was first discovered by Vitus Bering in 1729. It was surveyed and mapped by Captain Mikhail Tebenkov of the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1830s. Avacha Bay
8-569: Is 122 kilometres (76 mi) long with a watershed of 5,090 square kilometres (1,970 sq mi). Nineteenth-century travelers like George Kennan ascended the Avacha as far as possible and then took horses to the upper course of the river Kamchatka to travel further north. The town of Yelizovo , which houses the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport , is on the banks of the Avacha. This Kamchatka Krai location article
12-559: The Russian Pacific fleet. 52°56′N 158°36′E / 52.933°N 158.600°E / 52.933; 158.600 This Kamchatka Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Avacha River Avacha ( Russian : Ава́ча ) is a river in the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula , Russia . It flows southeast into Avacha Bay , near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . The river
16-519: Was the scene of a massive die-off of benthic marine organisms in September–October 2020. The Avacha Bay is unique in that it is among the largest bays in the world able to fit any ship in the world. It is an internal part of Avacha Gulf . Its total area is 215 square kilometers, and it is up to 26 meters deep. The main rivers flowing into the bay are the Avacha and Paratunka . It is the home base of
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