Great Adzhalyk Estuary
| Great Adzhalyk Estuary | |
|---|---|
 View of the estuary | |
  Great Adzhalyk Estuary | |
| Location | Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 46°35′52″N 30°53′24″E / 46.59778°N 30.89000°E |
| Type | Estuary |
| Primary inflows | Great Adzhalyk |
| Basin countries | Ukraine |
| Max. length | 7.7 km (4.8 mi) |
| Max. width | 1.1 km (0.68 mi) |
| Surface area | 6.0 km2 (2.3 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 0.74 m (2 ft 5 in) |
| Max. depth | 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) |
| Water volume | 4.5×106 m3 (160×106 cu ft) |
| Salinity | 12.1-13.4 ‰ |
| Settlements | Nova Dofinivka, Vapnyarka |
The Dofinivka Estuary, Great Adzhalyk Estuary, or Dofinivskyi Lyman [a], is a brackish water area in South Ukraine, in 12 km to east from Odesa. The water body is an estuary of small steppe river Great Adzhalyk, which inflows to the estuary in northern part. The length of the estuary is about 8 km, width about 1 km. The water body is very shallow, maximal depth is 1.2 m, but average less than 0.5 m.
It is separated from the Black Sea by the sandbar. It is artificially connected with the sea by a tube, about 1 m in diameter, since July 2001. The estuary is the shallowest water body in the north-western Black Sea.
Notes and references
[edit]- Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odesa, 151 pp. (in Russian)
- North-western Black Sea: biology and ecology, Eds.: Y.P. Zaitsev, B.G. Aleksandrov, G.G. Minicheva, Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 2006, 701 pp.
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