- St. Lawrence Bay, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
[
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 theChukotka Peninsula ,Russian Federation . It is located very close to theBering 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 localChukchi 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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