Tendra Spit
Tendra Spit is a sandbar in the Black Sea and part of Kherson Oblast in Ukraine.
Native name: Тендрівська коса | |
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| Geography | |
| Coordinates | 46°14′24″N 31°37′48″E |
| Adjacent to | Black Sea, Gulf of Tendra |
| Area | 12.89 km2 (4.98 sq mi) |
| Length | 65 km (40.4 mi) |
| Width | 1.8 km (1.12 mi) |
| Administration | |
Ukraine (occupied by Russia) | |
| Oblast | Kherson Oblast |
| Raion | Skadovsk Raion |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited (2001)2001 Ukrainian Census |
| Additional information | |
The island serves as a separation of the Gulf of Tendra from the Black Sea and is located at the southern and western part of the bay. In the west the island has a spit Bili Kuchuhury which, stretching east through the Gulf of Tendra as a shoal, reaches the Yahorlyk Kut peninsula. Bili Kuchuhury has the Bili Kuchuhury Lighthouse.
Tendra Lighthouse is also on the island.
The mutiny of men on board the Russian battleship Potemkin took place off Tendra Spit in June 1905.
See also
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