Cape Vankarem
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Cape Vankarem is a cape in the Chukchi Sea on the northern coast of Chukotka. The area around cape Vankarem is bounded by narrow beach ridges and swales with numerous inland ponds and lakes. Its latitude is 67°49'N and its longitude 175°50'W.
It is located close to Vankarem, a Chukchi settlement.
East of Cape Vankarem, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld observed remains of ancient dwellings, as well as numerous bones of reindeers and bears.
Walruses, and whales, including bowhead and gray whales, are abundant in the waters off Cape Vankarem.
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[edit] References
- Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.
- Sighting of gray whales off Cape Vankarem: -
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