Landsat satellite photo of Dniester Liman

Dniester Liman (Ukrainian: Дністровський лиман) is a liman (or lagoon), formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. It is located in Ukraine, in Odessa Oblast. The city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi lies on its western shore. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (688x864, 186 KB) Summary Landsat satellite photo of Dniester Liman formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (688x864, 186 KB) Summary Landsat satellite photo of Dniester Liman formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. ... Landsat satellite photo of limans along the Black Sea coast Liman forming the Dnieper and Southern Bug river estuaries Dniester Liman forming the Dniester river estuary Liman (Russian: ) is a name for a long, narrow bay or lagoon constituting the estuary of a river, formed from a drowned river valley. ... This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ... The Dniester (Polish Dniestr, Ukrainian Дністер (Dnister), Romanian Nistru, Russian Днестр (Dnestr), Yiddish‫נעסטער ‬ (nester), Serbian (Dnjester) and during antiquity was called Tyras in Latin) is a river in Eastern Europe. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... Odessa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, Odes’ka oblast’ or Одещина, Odeshchyna) is an oblast of south-western Ukraine. ... Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (aka Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy, Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Cetatea Albă; Turkish: Akkerman; Hungarian: Nyeszterfehérvár; Italian: Moncastro) is a city in southern Ukraine. ...

The area of the liman varies between 360 and 408 km², it is 42,5 km long and has maximum width of 12 km. The average depth is 1,8 m, the maximum depth 2,7 m.

External links

• Datasheet from www.wetlands.org (pdf file)
• (Russian) 1:100,000 topographic map of the liman - northern section
• (Russian) 1:100,000 topographic map of the liman - southern section