Kola Bay
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bay of the Barents Sea in Murmansk Oblast, Russia
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kola Bay is referenced by 225 other articles, and connects out to Russian, geographic coordinate system and Murmansk.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody.
It is catalogued under topics including Bays of the Barents Sea, Bodies of water of Murmansk Oblast and Fjords of Russia.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bay
- Part of
- Barents Sea
- Named after
- Kola
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Murmansk Oblast
- Image
- Мурманская гавань.jpg
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- native label
- Кольский залив
- Commons category
- Kola Bay
- vertical depth
- 300
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Encyclopedic overview
1598 map of Kola Bay, from Gerrit de Veer's diary of Willem Barentsz' explorations.
Kola Bay (Russian: Кольский залив) or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula. It is up to 7 km wide and has a depth of 200 to 300 metres. The Tuloma, Rosta and Kola Rivers discharge into the bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kola Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.