The Chaunskaya Bay or Chaun Bay ( Russian : Чаунская губа ) is an Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea , in Chaunsky District , Chukotka , northeast Siberia. There is Port of Pevek .
4-523: The bay is open to the north and is 140 km in length. Its maximum width is 110 km. Its mouth is defined by Cape Shelagsky , the end of the Shelag Range , to the east and an unnamed part of Ayon Island to the west. It narrows where the Pevek Peninsula on the east approaches Ayon Island. Owing to is northerly location Chaunskaya Bay is covered with ice most of the year. This bay
8-459: Is the center of one of the larger lowlands in Chukotka. A number of rivers flow into the southeastern corner: Chaun River , Ichuveyem River , Palyavaam River , Lelyuveyem River and Pucheveyem River . There is a protected natural area in the southeast. Lake Elgygytgyn is about 160 km southeast and the town of Bilibino about 160 km southwest. The first Russian to reach the area
12-642: The East Siberian Sea . The cape was named after the Shelags , a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky. It is the eastern headland at the entrance of Chaun Bay . The cape is located at the western end of the Shelag Range , the northwesternmost subrange of the Chukotka Mountains . This Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location article is
16-470: Was probably Mikhail Stadukhin in 1649. This Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cape Shelagsky Cape Shelagsky or Cape Shelag ( Russian : Мыс Шелагский ; Chukot : Ытрин , romanized: Ytrin ), also known as Erri by the Siberian Yupik , is a headland situated in eastern Siberia , Russia on the shores of
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