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The gulf is relatively shallow, with an average depth from 10 to 12 metres (33 to 39 ft), which restricts heavy sea transport. The Taz Estuary is an eastern side-branch formed by the Taz River. There are several islands near the mouth of the Ob, at the beginning of the estuary, such as Khaley Island. All these islands are close to the shore and ...
From at least the 12th century, Russian Pomors navigated the White and Barents Seas. At some date, they entered the Ob Gulf or portaged across the Yamal Peninsula.From the Gulf of Ob to the Taz Estuary, up the Taz River, past Mangazeya (1601), portage to Yanov Stan on the Turukhan River, leading to Turukhansk (1607) on the Yenisei at its juncture with the Lower Tunguska.
Map including the lower reaches of the Irtysh River The Irtysh in Omsk The Irtysh near Pavlodar in Kazakhstan. From its origins as the Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) in the Mongolian Altay mountains in Xinjiang, China, the Irtysh flows northwest through Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan, meeting the Ishim and Tobol rivers before merging with the Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, Russia after ...
River Ob flows 27 kilometers (17 mi) to the north of Gorkoye's northern end. Less than 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) to the southwest lies smaller lake Bolshoye Utichye. Lake Mostovoye is located 17 kilometers (11 mi) to the southwest. [3]
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.
Gulf of Ob, a bay of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia; Ob (river), a river in West Siberia, Russia Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the river Ob; Ob, Germany, in Bidingen, Bavaria, Germany; Ob, Russia, a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia; Ocean Beach, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States
The Ob-Irtysh river system is the world's seventh largest, after the Yellow River, the Yenisei, the Mississippi, the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Nile.
The Northern river reversal or Siberian river reversal was an ambitious project to divert the flow of the Northern rivers in the Soviet Union, which "uselessly" drain into the Arctic Ocean, southwards towards the populated agricultural areas of Central Asia, which lack water.