{{Short description|Cape in Siberia}} {{Infobox landform | name = Cape Chukotsky | other_name = Мыс Чукотский | type = Cape | pushpin_map = Russia | coordinates = {{coord|64.266667|N|173.066667|W|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | image = Location_of_Provideniya_Bay_(corrected_format).PNG | image_size = }}
'''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.<ref>Kondratiev, A. Ya. (1997) "Экологический мониторинг на морском побережье Северо-Востока России". Magadan</ref>
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.<ref name=r1>Dukalskaya M. V. [http://www.polarmuseum.ru/sketches/kamch1/kamch1.htm Первая Камчатская экспедиция] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192528/http://www.polarmuseum.ru/sketches/kamch1/kamch1.htm |date=2013-10-29 }}. The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic. polarmuseum.ru</ref>
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Category:Landforms of the Bering Sea Chukotsky