The Saint Lawrence Bay (russian: Залив Лаврентия; ''Zaliv Lavrentiya'') is a bay in the Bering Sea on the eastern coast of the

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Geography

This bay is located very close to the Bering Strait, which lies only a few km to the NE.

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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. On the southern shore of the bay at

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is the village of Port Lawrence. Bering Strait

History

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

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in August 1778, but he didn't linger in the bay.Cook's visit
This bay was first surveyed by Russian mariner Count

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in 1828.

References

All locationsDwarf plants in St. Lawrence Bay
Bays of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Bays of the Bering Sea {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub

Geography

History

See also

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