Middendorf Bay

Middendorf Bay – located in the Kara Sea, in the northwestern coast of the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia. It is shaped like a fjord; the northeastern base of it is the Zarya Peninsula, the southeastern Shore of Laptev, in the west is the open sea with islands. In the waters of the Gulf there are numerous islands, the largest of which is Rykachev Island. Nine months of the year, the bay is frozen and even in summer it is never completely free of ice. The shores of the gulf are covered by tundra. The shores of M.B. were first explored by Kh. Laptev in May 1741, during the Great Northern Expedition. On the south shore of the bay on June 1, 1741, he met with the group of S. Chelyuskin. In 1900, Russian Polar Expedition of E. Toll (1900–1903) on the yacht Zaryaexplored the bay. It was Toll who named the bay in honor of his teacher, the famous Russian scientist and academician A.F. Middendorf, the first scientists to explore the Taymyr Peninsula. Bay is known by the store of E. Toll. During the...