Buzachi Peninsula
Template:Infobox settlement The Buzachi Peninsula (Template:Lang-kk; Template:Lang-ru) is a peninsula located in western Kazakhstan. It borders on the Mangyshlak Bay of the Caspian Sea in the west and with the Mangyshlak Peninsula in the southwest. The Dead Kultuk lies to the northeast and the narrow Kaydak Inlet forms its eastern limit. Durneva Island lies to the north and the Tyuleniy Archipelago lies off the western shores of the peninsula.
Administratively the Buzachi Peninsula is part of Kazakhstan's Mangystau Province. Currently it is a new oil exploration area.<ref>Buzachi Peninsula - New Oil Region of West Kazakhstan</ref>
This peninsula is a vast low-lying depression with salt marshes and salt lakes. Parts of it lie between 20 and 30 m below sea level, lower than the Caspian.<ref>Масальский В. И. Бузачи // Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона : в 86 т. (82 т. и 4 доп.). — СПб., 1890—1907.</ref> The area provides an important habitat for thousands of Goitered Gazelles.<ref>David P. Mallon & Steven Charles Kingswood, Antelopes: Part 4 - North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: Global Survey And Regional Action Plans (Pt. 4) p. 137</ref>
Cartography
The area was cartographed by Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov during the Caspian Expedition, which surveyed the Caspian Sea from 1719 to 1727.<ref name=CS>Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia, p. 156</ref>
File:Обзорная карта Мангыстау.png Map of the area with the Buzachi Peninsula at the top. |
File:North-East part of Caspian Sea (IMW NL39).jpg Map of the northeastern part of Caspian Sea with the Buzachi Peninsula in the lower right. |
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