St. Lawrence Bay, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

St. Lawrence Bay, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

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NASA picture of the Bering Strait area; St. Lawrence Bay can be clearly seen on the lower left side of the image.]

The Saint Lawrence Bay (Russian: Zaliv Lavrentiya) is a bay in the Bering Sea on the eastern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Federation. It is located very close to the Bering Strait, which lies only a few Km to the NE.

The bay is open towards the southeast; it is 45 km in length and has an average width of about 8 Km. There are two little islands inside the bay where it narrows forming an inlet.

History

British Captain James Cook landed for a few hours in St. Lawrence Bay and met some of the local Chukchi people in August 1778.

This bay was first surveyed by Russian mariner Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1828.

References

* [http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/russia_guide.htm All locations]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-196X(198701%2F03)39%3A1%3C63%3APTAPE(%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q Dwarf plants in St. Lawrence Bay]
* [http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/jcr/~vbritish1.html Cook's visit]


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