Guide
Hamsilos is a bay on İnceburun, the northernmost point of Türkiye, within the province of Sinop: an inlet of the sea running three to four hundred metres inland from the mouth of the Deveci stream. It is eleven kilometres from Sinop, about ten from İnceburun and one kilometre north of Akliman bay.
It is widely called a fjord, but it cannot be one: the glaciers in Türkiye never came down to sea level, and in the glacial period the valley glaciers here reached only 2,200 metres below the mountain summits. What happened instead is that the Deveci stream cut its bed down to the lowered sea level of the last glacial period, and when the sea rose again after the ice age it flooded the mouth of the stream. Hamsilos is therefore a ria coast.
Seen from above, the bay resembles the head of an elephant. Going inland from it the country turns to forest. Locally the bay is also called Hamsoros.
The 67.9 hectares around Hamsilos bay and Akliman were accepted as a nature park in 2007. It is a well-preserved natural landscape, fourteen kilometres from the city of Sinop and five and a half from the airport. Six endemic plants grow in the park, among them a wild pink, the Kastamonu onion, a thistle, goat's-beard, a spurge and the Sinop crocus.
The possibility that a nuclear power station may be built at İnceburun could lead to the area being closed to the public.
Getting there
The only road to Hamsilos passes through Akliman.
- Designated
- 24.08.2007
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
