Cape Stolétiya ( Eskim. Sivukak - “front”) is a rocky cape on the eastern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula , washed by the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea within the Providensky district of the Chukotka Autonomous Region .
| Cape of the Century | |
|---|---|
| eski. Sivukak | |
| Location | |
| Water area | Bering Sea |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Chukotka Autonomous Region |
It represents rocky cliffs of the mountain massif up to 600 m high (the city of Long , 604 m and the first , 584 m). Granite cliffs are sometimes replaced by steep slopes, at the foot of which in the sea there are numerous stones and kekurs [1] .
It was named on August 10, 1828 by F. P. Litke , since exactly 100 years before this day, the ship “Saint Gabriel” of the First Kamchatka Expedition of V. Bering and A. Chirikov passed here [2] .
On the shores of the cape, a large colony of seabirds of more than 100 thousand individuals nests, among which are noted: silly , bering cormorant , burgomaster , myeva , heron gull , murre , large brook , Pacific janitor , young brooch , white -breasted peasant , ipatka and ax, [3 ] .
Notes
- ↑ PromstroyNIIproekt. The territorial planning scheme of the Providensky municipal district of the Chukotka Autonomous Region. - Magadan, 2013. - T. 1. - p. 73. - 117 p.
- Ть Leontyev V. V. , Novikova K. A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovshchikov ; Far East Academy of Sciences of the USSR . North-East. complex. SRI. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince publishing house , 1989. - p. 337, 345. - 456 p. - 15 000 copies - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
- ↑ Wetlands of Russia. Volume 4. Wetlands of the North-East of Russia (compiled by A. V. Andreev). M .: Wetlands International, 2001. 296 p. ISBN 90-5882-986-3