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The coastal Chukchi traditionally engaged in fishing, whaling and the hunting of walrus in this cold sea. In Siberia places along the coast are: Cape Billings , Cape Schmidt , Amguyema River , Cape Vankarem , the large Kolyuchinskaya Bay , Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon , Cape Serdtse-Kamen , Enurmino , Chegitun River , Inchoun , Uelen and Cape Dezhnev .
The survivors were rescued by the American motorized fishing schooner King & Winge [37] after Captain Robert Bartlett walked across the Chukchi Sea to Siberia to summon help. In 1921, Stefansson sent five settlers (the Canadian Allan Crawford, three Americans: Fred Maurer, Lorne Knight and Milton Galle, and Iñupiat seamstress and cook Ada ...
The Chukchi Sea — a sea of the Arctic Ocean, between northwestern Alaska (U.S.) and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Far East Russia. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Frozen wilderness of far northern Chukotka. Chukotka is bordered in the north by the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, which are part of the Arctic Ocean; in the east by the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea, part of the Pacific Ocean; in the south by Kamchatka Krai and Magadan Oblast; and in the west by the Sakha Republic.
Cape Krusenstern National Monument comprises the coast of the Chukchi Sea from the opening of the Hotham Inlet at the mouth of the Kobuk River, extending northwards along the coast to a point just short of Imikruk Lagoon. It extends inland about 20 miles (32 km), with a high point in the north at Kikmiksot Mountain (2,285 feet (696 m)) in the ...
Naukan, situated on the easternmost point of the Chukotsky Peninsula, was a key trading post linking those Chukchi who engaged in reindeer herding in the tundra and American sea hunters. [24] The Chukchi herders provided meat and skins, while their Alaskan partners provided blubber and American goods. [24]
Point Hope, with a population of about 675, sits on a triangular spit of land that juts into the Chukchi Sea. It is about 700 miles (1,126 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage and 200 miles (322 ...
Location of the Chukchi Sea Shelf in the Arctic Ocean. The Chukchi Shelf or Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental shelf of Russia. In the west it merges with the Russian Siberian Shelf. Within this shelf, the 50-mile Chukchi Corridor acts as a ...