Kresta Bay

Kresta Bay or Kresta Gulf (Russian: Залив Креста; Zaliv Kresta) is a large bay of the Gulf of Anadyr on the southern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Federation.

Administratively the bay is part of the Iultinsky District of Chukotka.

[1] There are two inlets and a coastal lagoon enclosed by a landspit inside the bay.

[3] This bay was first surveyed by Russian mariner Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1828.

This Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location article is a stub.

An old U.S. Navy map showing Kresta Bay on its upper right corner.
View of Kresta Bay.