The Korfa Bay is a bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 on the Kamchatka coast of the Bering Sea

Bering Sea

The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves....

 in Russia

Russia

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. It is approximately triangular being about 70 km wide at the mouth and extending inland about 75 km. On the west side, the Il'pinsky Peninsula separates it from Anapka Bay which forms the north end of Karaginsky Bay. On the east, the Govena Peninsula (Cape Govensky) separates it from the Olyutorsky Bay. The northern coast contains the Skrytaya Harbor, which is a major salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...

 fishing ground. The largest settlements on the gulf are Tilichiki

Tilichiki

Tilichiki is a rural locality and the administrative center of Olyutorsky District of Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is located on the Korfa Bay of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Tilichiki Airport is located to the south of it, and it is also connected by ferry service to the port village...

 and Olyutorovka. The 2006 Kamchatka earthquakes

2006 Kamchatka earthquakes

The 2006 Kamchatka earthquakes were a series of powerful earthquakes that started on April 20, 2006 at 23:25 UTC as a major quake with the magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located near coast of Koryak Autonomous Okrug at 61.075°N, 167.085°E at an estimated depth of...

 were centered on the seaside village of Korf. Coal was mined and exported from a mine near the bay in the early 20th Century.

The bay is named after Baron Andrei Korf

Andrei Korf

Andrei Nikolaevich Korf was an Imperial Russian baron of Baltic German descent and an infantry general of the Imperial Russian Army. The names of the village of Korf and the Korfa Gulf commemorate him....

, the first Governor General of Priamurye. This is the Baron Koff or Barankoff Bay mentioned by American travelers Washington Vanderlip and Olaf Swenson

Olaf Swenson

Olaf Swenson was a Seattle-based fur trader and adventurer active in Siberia and Alaska in the first third of the 20th century. His career intersected with activities of notable explorers of the period, and with the Russian civil war. He is credited with leading the rescue of the Karluk...

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