Zhuravlev Bay (, Zaliv Zhuravleva)[GoogleEarth] This bay is blocked by ice most of the year.
History
This bay was named by the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by
Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev after Soviet
Arctic explorer, invaluable member of the expedition and veteran surveyor Sergei Prokopyevich Zhuravlev (1892–1937).
[ Архипелаг Северная Земля — один из наиболее крупных районов оледенения на территории России]
Geography
Zhuravlev Bay is a body of water in the northeastern area of Komsomolets Island, the northernmost island of Severnaya Zemlya.
[ Map U-47-XXXI,XXXII,XXXIII бух. Кренкеля. Scale: 1 : 200 000. Состояние местности на 1988 год. Издание 1992 г.][ Залив Журавлева. Остров Комсомолец]
The bay is open to the Kara Sea in the southwest. It has a maximum width at its mouth of about , steadily narrowing towards the inner bay. The edge of the massive Academy of Sciences Glacier runs all along the eastern shore, while the northwestern shoreline is bound by a stretch of unglaciated area with Shar Island, in diameter, at the end of the headland.
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