Cape Serdtse-Kamen (russian: мыс Сердце-Камень, literally translated as "Cape Heart-Stone") is a
headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...
on the northeastern coast of
Chukotka,
Russian Federation
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. It is about 140 km west of
Cape Dezhnev
Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev (; ), formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny, is a cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Asia. It is located on the Chukchi Peninsula in the very sparsely populated Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of ...
, 120 km east of
Kolyuchinskaya Bay
Kolyuchin Bay (russian: Колючинская губа; ''Kolyuchinskaya guba'') is a large bay in the Chukchi Sea on the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia.
Administratively this bay belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of ...
and about 30 km to the east of the
Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon
The Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon (Russian: Лагуна Нэскэнпильгын) is a shallow coastal lake in the Chukchi Sea at the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia. to the east is Kolyuchinskaya Bay and west, Cape Serdtse-Kamen.
...
. Nearby is the village of
Enurmino.
Cape Serdtse-Kamen is a geographic landmark, east of which the
Chukchi Sea
Chukchi Sea ( rus, Чуко́тское мо́ре, r=Chukotskoye more, p=tɕʊˈkotskəjə ˈmorʲɪ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west b ...
coast slants sharply to the southeast until the
Bering Strait.
History
The wreck of the Soviet steamer
Chelyuskin, which sank in 1934 during its pioneer exploration of the
Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, ''Severnyy morskoy put'', shortened to Севморпуть, ''Sevmorput'') is a shipping route officially defined by Russian legislation as lying east of Nov ...
, was discovered in 2006 on the seabed at the depth of about 50 m not far from the cape. The village of
Uelen
Uelen (russian: Уэлéн; Chukchi: , ''Uvèlèn''; Siberian Yupik: Улыӄ, ''Ulyḳ''; Naukan Yupik: Олыӄ, ''Oleq''; also known as Whalen in older English-language sources and Ugelen on USCGS charts) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') ...
, the
easternmost settlement in Russia, is located 150 km to the southeast of Cape Serdtse-Kamen along the coastline.
Ecology
The area around this headland is a natural habitat for the
short-tailed albatross
The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (''Phoebastria albatrus'') is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the alb ...
(''Phoebastria albatrus'').
Bowhead whales
The bowhead whale (''Balaena mysticetus'') is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the only living representative of the genus ''Balaena''. They are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and subarctic waters, an ...
are frequently sighted in the waters off the Serdtse-Kamen Cape.
Bowhead whales
/ref> Very large numbers of walruses have been observed resting on shore and in the shallow waters adjacent to this cape during the late autumn.
References
External links
Benthos
Unusual abundance of macrobenthos and biological invasions
Serdtse-Kamen
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