Khromskaya Bay
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East Siberian Sea
The East Siberian Sea is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east...
west of the Sundrun River
Sundrun River
The Sundrun River is a river in the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation. It crosses the tundra first in a roughly eastern and then, more than halfway through its course, in a northern direction. It flows into the East Siberian Sea at the western end of the Kolyma Bay...
region and east of the Yana Bay
Yana Bay
The Yana Bay is the most important gulf of the Laptev Sea. It is located between Cape Buor-Khaya on its western side and the Ebelyakh Bay at its eastern end....
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The bay is open to the northeast through a narrow and straight channel and is 130 km in length. Its maximum width is about 30 km and it has a branch or inlet extending northwards midway between its mouth and its most inland shore point. The Omullyakhskaya Bay
Omullyakhskaya Bay
The Omulyakhskaya Bay or Omulyakh Bay is a bay in the East Siberian Sea. It is located west of the Sundrun River region and east of the Yana Bay....
lies north of Khromskaya Bay and shares the same mouth.
This bay is in an area of wetlands; lakes and marshes dot the whole landscape. The Khroma River
Khroma River
The Khroma River is a river in the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation. It crosses the tundra roughly northeastwards and flows into Khromskaya Bay which is connected with the East Siberian Sea...
flows into this bay from the south.
Owing to is northerly location the Khromskaya Bay is covered with ice most of the year. In the summer the bay is a breeding and moulting area for the Lesser White-fronted Goose
Lesser White-fronted Goose
The Lesser White-fronted Goose is a goose closely related to the larger White-fronted Goose .It breeds in northernmost Asia, but it is a scarce breeder in Europe. There is a re-introduction scheme in Fennoscandia....
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Mammoth
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...
s were common in this region during the holocene
Holocene
The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"...
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The Khromskaya Bay and the area surrounding it belong to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) administrative division of the Russian Federation.