Golygina

Coordinates: 51°56′02″N 156°29′21″E / 51.9338°N 156.4893°E / 51.9338; 156.4893
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Golygina
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthSea of Okhotsk
 • coordinates
51°56′02″N 156°29′21″E / 51.9338°N 156.4893°E / 51.9338; 156.4893
Length112 km (70 mi)
Basin size2,100 km2 (810 sq mi)

The Golygina (Russian: Голыгина)[1] is a river on the southwest coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It flows into the Sea of Okhotsk. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi).[2] A Russian expedition under Vladimir Atlasov first reached it in the last decade of the seventeenth century.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 104
  2. ^ "Река Голыгино, Унканович, Прав. Унканович in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  3. ^ Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)