page_title: Maria Pronchishcheva Bay
hierarchical_section_title: Maria Pronchishcheva Bay
caption_attribution_description: English: Nordensjelda Islands
context_page_description: Maria Pronchishcheva Bay is a deep gulf in the Laptev Sea. It is located about 75 km north of the mouth of the Khatanga Gulf, on the eastern side of the Taymyr Peninsula.
  Maria Pronchishcheva Bay is narrow and long. Lat 75° 45' and long 113°.
  This gulf has the Byrranga Mountains in the west, so that quite a few rivers, two of them of considerable size, flow into it from the west and the southwest.
  The climate in the area is exceptionally severe, with prolonged, bitter winters, so that this gulf is covered by ice most of the year.
  Maria Pronchishcheva Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.
  This bay is named after pioneering Russian explorer Vasili Pronchishchev's wife Maria.
context_section_description: Maria Pronchishcheva Bay (Russian: Бухта Марии Прончищевой, or Bukhta Marii Pronchishchevoy) is a deep gulf in the Laptev Sea. It is located about 75 km north of the mouth of the Khatanga Gulf, on the eastern side of the Taymyr Peninsula.
  Maria Pronchishcheva Bay is narrow (about 4 km in average) and long (about 60 km from the mouth to its deepest recess). Lat 75° 45' and long 113°.
  This gulf has the Byrranga Mountains in the west, so that quite a few rivers, two of them of considerable size, flow into it from the west and the southwest.
  The climate in the area is exceptionally severe, with prolonged, bitter winters, so that this gulf is covered by ice most of the year.
  Maria Pronchishcheva Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.
  This bay is named after pioneering Russian explorer Vasili Pronchishchev's wife Maria.
caption: Map showing the location of Maria Pronchishcheva Bay.
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