The Saint Lawrence Bay (; ''Zaliv Lavrentiya'') is a bay in the

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on the eastern coast of the

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Geography

This bay is located very close to the

Bering Strait The Bering Strait ( , ; ) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia–United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' ...

, 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 Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...

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

Chukchi people The Chukchi, or Chukchee (, ''ḷygʺoravètḷʹèt, o'ravètḷʹèt''), are a Siberian ethnic group native to the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean all within modern Russia. They s ...

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

Fyodor Petrovich Litke Fyodor, Fedor () or Feodor is the Russian-language form of the originally Greek-language name "Theodore" () meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". Fedora () is the feminine form. "Fyodor" and "Fedor" are two English transliterations of the same Ru ...

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

References