The bay is roughly rectangular and opens to the southeast. The corners are (clockwise from the south) Cape Navarin (another source says the adjacent Cape Thaddeus),
Anadyr Estuary,
Kresta Bay and
Cape Chukotsky on the
Chukchi Peninsula. It is about across. A long gravel bar runs along the northeast shore for about east from Kresta Bay. The Gulf of Anadyr is covered with ice normally 10 months a year.
Whales such as
bowhead and
gray may appear close to shore. ==Civilization==