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Cape Vankarem is a cape in the Chukchi Sea on the northern coast of Chukotka between Cape Schmidt to the west and Kolyuchinskaya Bay to the east. It projects from a sandspit across the mouth of a lagoon into which flows the Vankarem River. At the mouth of the lagoon is the village of Vankarem, a Chukchi settlement.

Cape Vankarem мыс Ванкарем
View of Cape Vankarem
Cape Vankarem
Coordinates: 67°50′55″N 175°48′24″W
Location	Chukotka,  Russia
Offshore water bodies	Chukchi Sea

The area around cape Vankarem is bounded by narrow beach ridges and swales with numerous inlets and coastal lagoons.

History

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.[1]

See also

• Captain Vladimir Voronin

References

• Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.

External links

• Media related to Cape Vankarem at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[ru] Ванкарем (мыс)

Ванкаре́м — невысокий скалистый мыс на северном побережье Чукотского моря, близ устья лагуны Ванкарем. Расположен между Мысом Шмидта на западе и Колючинской губой на востоке. Относится к Иультинскому району Чукотского автономного округа России.

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