The Dead Kultuk (Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia / Chief editor A. Nysanbayev - Almaty, 1998 ISBN 5-89800-123-9 Ölıqoltyq; ) is a bay of the Caspian Sea in the coast of Kazakhstan, west of the Ustyurt desert.
The bay was known as 'Tsesarevich Bay' and then as 'Komsomolets Bay' in the past. Durneva Island lies near the entrance to the Dead Kultuk.Ostrov Durneva
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.Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia, p. 156 Currently there are oil fields in the area. By 2010, with the fall in the level of the Caspian Sea Kaydak and Dead Kultuk have again dried up, turning into a large sor (salt flat). Cartography Owing to its special colour the Dead Kultuk is the bay which appears in early maps of the Caspian Sea as 'Blue Sea' ( in maps in that language). Guillaume de Lisle, Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene 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.
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
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