Omullyakhskaya 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...
. It is located 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 east through a narrow and straight channel and is 115 km in length. Starting from its mouth the bay widens inside, until it reaches a width of 25 km. It has a curved inlet at its end. The Khromskaya Bay
Khromskaya Bay
The Khromskaya Bay or Khroma Bay is a bay in the East Siberian Sea west of the Sundrun River region and east of the Yana Bay.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...
is very similar to this bay and lies only 40 km south. Both bays share the same mouth.
This bay is in an area of wetlands; lakes and marshes dot the whole landscape. Owing to is northerly location the Omullyakhskaya Bay is covered with ice most of the year.
The Omulyakh Bay and the area surrounding it belong to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)administrative division of the Russian Federation.