# Cape Chukotsky

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{{Short description|Cape in Siberia}}
{{Infobox landform
| name        = Cape Chukotsky
| other_name  = Мыс Чукотский
| type        = [Cape](/source/Cape_(geography))
| 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
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}}

'''Cape Chukotsky''' is located in the south-east of the [Chukotka Peninsula](/source/Chukotka_Peninsula), at the east entrance to the [Providence Bay](/source/Providence_Bay%2C_Siberia) and the northern boundary of [Gulf of Anadyr](/source/Gulf_of_Anadyr); it borders the [Bering Sea](/source/Bering_Sea) and [Bering Strait](/source/Bering_Strait). This rocky [cape](/source/Cape_(geography)) hosts a [bird colony](/source/bird_colony) with a population of one thousand [northern fulmar](/source/northern_fulmar)s, [pelagic cormorant](/source/pelagic_cormorant)s, [black-legged kittiwake](/source/black-legged_kittiwake)s, ''[Uria](/source/Uria)s'', [pigeon guillemot](/source/pigeon_guillemot)s and [horned puffin](/source/horned_puffin)s.<ref>Kondratiev, A. Ya. (1997) "Экологический мониторинг на морском побережье Северо-Востока России". Magadan</ref>

The cape was discovered by the [First Kamchatka Expedition](/source/First_Kamchatka_Expedition) on 8 August 1728. On that day, a boat of eight [Chukchi](/source/Chukchi_people) men approached an expedition ship, which hinted [Aleksei Chirikov](/source/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
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