The flatsnout goby is a species of goby endemic to the Black Sea where it is mostly known from inshore waters amongst rocks and boulders. It is occasionally found offshore over areas with gravel subst
The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai
August 2011 landsat satellite photo
Views of the Cimmerian Bosporus, or Straits of Taman, as drawn by Edward Daniel Clarke c. 1801
View from the Crimean coast in 2003
View northwest from Tuzla Island towards Port Krym in 2014. The strait is about 5 km wide at this point.