abstract:The Arabat Spit (, Arabatska strilka; , Arabatskaya strelka; ), also called Arabat Tongue or, literally, Arabat Pointer, is a spit (narrow strip of land) which separates a large, shallow and very salty system of lagoons named Sivash from the Sea of Azov. The spit is located between the town of Henichesk, Ukraine, on the north and the north-eastern shores of Crimea on the south.