Achinkinkan ( Orlova ) is a small island at the entrance to the Penkegnay bay of the Senyavin Strait of the Bering Sea at the southeastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula . Administratively refers to the Providence district of the Chukotka Autonomous Region .
| Achinkinkan | |
|---|---|
| chuck. Echynkpiken | |
| Specifications | |
| Population | 0 pax |
| Location | |
| Water area | Bering Sea |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug |
Translated from Chuk. Echynkpiken - βfatβ, named in comparison with the neighboring Merkinkan island - βskinnyβ.
It was mapped by F. P. Litke in 1828 as Orlova Island - by the name of the officer who participated here in the hydrographic work of the expedition [1] .
On the island there are approx. 1.3 thousand birds - Bering cormorant, large gulls, washing, Pacific chistik, mortar, hatchet [2] .
Notes
- β Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 .-- S. 79, 293. - 456 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
- β Wetlands of Russia. Volume 4. Wetlands of the North-East of Russia (compiled by A. V. Andreev). M .: Wetlands International, 2001.296 s. ISBN 90-5882-986-3