Toll Bay, () is a bay in the Kara Sea, Russia. Administratively, Toll Bay and its adjacent area belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.
Geography
Toll Bay is located in the western shores of the
Taymyr Peninsula, northeast of the
Taymyr Gulf and it is open towards the west. It is limited by
Cape Oscar, the headland of the
Oscar Peninsula, on its southwestern side and by
Cape Sterligov on its northeastern side.
[ Залив Толля] Lishny Island () lies north of Toll Bay about 16 km from the coast.
Toll Bay is surrounded by bleak tundra coast. The climate in the area is severe, with long and bitter winters and frequent blizzards and gales. This desolate bay is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes.[ Topographical map]
History
This bay was explored by Russian geologist
Eduard Toll during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900-1903 and was later named after him, by
Fridtjof Nansen[ Alexander von Middendorff and his expedition to Siberia (1842–1845)][Some Results of the Norwegian Arctic Expedition, 1893-96; Fridtjof Nansen; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 5 (May, 1897), pp. 473-505]
The whole area is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.[ Great Arctic State Nature Reserve ]
Further reading
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William Barr, Baron Eduard von Toll’s Last Expedition.
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