Chushka Spit
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Chushka Spit (Template:Langx) is a sandy spit in the northern part of the Strait of Kerch. It extends from Cape Achilleion and the town of Template:Interlanguage link to the south-west in the direction of the Black Sea for almost Script error: No such module "convert"..[1][2] Administratively, it belongs to Temryuksky District, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
Geography
The Chushka Spit forms the northern shore of Taman Bay; the southern shore was formerly the Tuzla Spit. It has many long branches extending to the south. In 1914 a lighthouse with a fixed red light at a height of Script error: No such module "convert". was constructed.[3]
A railway line and a highway run along the spit to Port Kavkaz, at the locality of Chushka, towards the end of the spit. As well as freight being shipped through the port, it is the terminal of the Kerch Strait ferry line connecting the Taman Peninsula with Crimea. The Kerch railway bridge that was built in 1944, then damaged by storms and ice and dismantled in 1945, ran from Chushka across the strait to the Kerch Peninsula.
Ecology
During a storm in November 2007, a Russian-flagged oil tanker was damaged off the Chushka Spit, resulting in the release of more than 2000 metric tons of fuel oil.[4] Invertebrates such as Mytilus galloprovincialis were badly affected by the spill, but recovered by the following summer.[5]
See also
References
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- ↑ Chushka: Russia Geographic Names
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- ↑ Notice of Mariners U.S.A. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment. Hydrographic Office 2009 page 612
- ↑ Dmitry Ya Fashchuk Marine Ecological Geography: Theory and Experience page 409 Springer Science & Business Media, 2011, 434 pages Template:ISBN
- ↑ G.A. Kolyuchkina et al. Long-term Effects of Kerch Strait Residual Oil-Spill: Hydrocarbon Concentration in Bottom Sediments and Biomarkers in Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck, 1819) Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 12: 461-469 (2012) Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn". DOI: 10.4194/1303-2712-v12_2_37
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