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The Dead Kultuk (Kazakh: Өлі қолтық шығанағы[1] Ölı qoltyq şyğanağy; Russian: Мёртвый Култук) is a bay of the Caspian Sea in the coast of Kazakhstan, west of the Ustyurt desert.

Dead Kultuk
Өлі қолтық шығанағы
Dead Kultuk Location in the Caspian Sea
Location	Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan
Coordinates	45°25′17″N 54°1′50″E
Native name	Óli qoltyq shyǵanaǵ  (Kazakh)
Ocean/sea sources	Caspian Sea
Basin countries	Kazakhstan
Surface area	500 km2 (190 sq mi)
Average depth	1 m (3 ft 3 in)
Islands	Durneva Island
Settlements	0

The bay was known as 'Tsesarevich Bay' and then as 'Komsomolets Bay' in the past.[2] Durneva Island lies near the entrance to the Dead Kultuk.[3]

It had a distinct coastline in former times, but since the 1990s, with higher Caspian Sea levels, the water penetrates inland through the neck of the bay producing waterlogged marshes. Located at the mainland end of the bay, the Kaydak Inlet cuts deep into the coast extending east and then southwards. Nowadays both the bay and the inlet are filled with Caspian Sea water.[2] Currently there are oil fields in the area.[4]

Cartography

Owing to its special colour the Dead Kultuk is the bay which appears in early maps of the Caspian Sea as 'Blue Sea' (French: Mer Bleue in maps in that language).[5] The area was mapped by Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov during the Caspian Expedition, which surveyed the Caspian Sea from 1719 to 1727, but was not accurately described until G. S. Karelin did so in 1832.[2]

See also

• Buzachi Peninsula
• Dunga oil field

References

External links

• Caspian Sea Biodiversity
• Overview of oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea region Last Updated: August 26, 2013
• Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective

На других языках

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- [en] Dead Kultuk

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[ru] Мёртвый Култук

Мёртвый Култук (каз. Өлі қолтық шығанағы, бывший залив Цесаревича и залив Комсомолец) — ранее залив у северо-восточного берега Каспийского моря, ныне пролив в залив Кайдак. Расположен на территории Мангистауской области Казахстана.

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