Gulfs of the Laptev Sea - Nordvik, Maria Pronchishcheva Bay, Simsa Bay, Khatanga Gulf, Anabar Bay, Yana Bay, Kozhevnikov Bay, Olenyok Gulf (Paperback)

Chapters: Nordvik, Maria Pronchishcheva Bay, Simsa Bay, Khatanga Gulf, Anabar Bay, Yana Bay, Kozhevnikov Bay, Olenyok Gulf, Buor-Khaya Gulf, Faddey Bay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nordvik (Russian: ) was a harbor in the Khatanga Gulf (Laptev Sea) at the mouth of the Khatanga River. It was located on the Uryung Tumus Peninsula, west of a bay called Nordvik Bay (; Bukhta Nordvik). Formerly there was a small town and a penal colony in Nordvik. The climate is exceptionally severe, with prolonged, bitter winters. Near Nordvik there is a paleozoic salt dome known as Tus-Takh on the Uryung Tumus Peninsula itself. It was suspected that the ground underneath would probably yield oil and gas. The remains of a plesiosaur (Plesiosaurus robustus) were also found on this peninsula. In 1933 the newly-formed Glavsevmorput (Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route) sent the freighter Pravda to Nordvik with an oil exploration expedition led by N.N. Urvantsev. By September 4 Pravda was close to Nordvik. Kapitan Belitskiy had decided to approach Bukhta Nordvik from the east, between Poluostrov Paksa and Bolshoy Begichev Island. Despite having no knowledge of the depth of the channel, Belitskiy went ahead without taking the elementary precaution of sounding, and Pravda twice ran aground in the center of the channel. According to Urvantsev, drilling at Nordvik over the next few seasons revealed small, shallow oil pockets in connection with salt structures with little commercial significance. However the salt itself was extracted on a fairly massive scale by means of forced labourers in a penal colony. From the 1930s onwards Nordvik became an important source of salt supply for the northern fisheries. Although the original prospects for oil at Nordvik did ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=13509968