Krenkel Bay
Бухта Кренкеля
View of the shore of Krenkel Bay
Landsat image of Komsomolets island
Krenkel Bay Location in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Location	Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Coordinates	80°30′N 97°50′E / 80.500°N 97.833°E / 80.500; 97.833
Ocean/sea sources	Laptev Sea
Basin countries	Russia
Max. length	11 km (6.8 mi)[1]
Max. width	25 km (16 mi)
Islands	Ozerny Island

Krenkel Bay (Russian: Бухта Кренкеля, romanized: Bukhta Krenkelya)^[2] is a bay in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.^[1]

History

This bay was discovered by the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev. Decades later, in 1973, this bay was named after Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator Ernst Krenkel (1903–1971).^[3]

Geography

Krenkel Bay is a body of water in the northeastern area of Komsomolets Island, the northernmost island of Severnaya Zemlya.^[4]

The bay is open to the southeast. It is regular in shape and has a width of about 25 km (16 mi). The edge of the massive Academy of Sciences Glacier runs all along the western shore, while the northern shoreline is bound by a stretch of unglaciated area.^[1] Ozerny Island lies close to the northeastern headland of the bay.^[5]