Cape Chukotsky
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Cape Chukotsky is located in the south-east of the Chukotka Peninsula, at the east entrance to the Providence Bay and the northern boundary of Gulf of Anadyr; it borders the Bering Sea and Bering Strait. This rocky cape hosts a bird colony with a population of one thousand northern fulmars, pelagic cormorants, black-legged kittiwakes, Urias, pigeon guillemots and horned puffins.[1]
The cape was discovered by the First Kamchatka Expedition on 8 August 1728. On that day, a boat of eight Chukchi men approached an expedition ship, which hinted Aleksei Chirikov to choose the name for the cape.[2]
References
- ↑ Kondratiev, A. Ya. (1997) "Экологический мониторинг на морском побережье Северо-Востока России". Magadan
- ↑ Dukalskaya M. V. Первая Камчатская экспедиция. The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic. polarmuseum.ru
