Three rivers have their mouths at the beginning of the estuary, the Anabar in the center, the Uele from the east, and the Suolama from the southwest.

[1][2][3] The climate is Arctic and extremely severe, with prolonged, bitter winters so that the bay is covered by ice most of the year.

Anabar Bay and its surrounding area belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation.

The Sibirskaya ryapushka fish often arrives in great numbers to the mouth of river Anabar.

One was Khorgo, at the mouth of the bay, and the other Tostuya, further inland at the point where the estuarine area begins.