Arakamchechen Island ( rus, Аракамчечен;

Eskimo–Aleut The Eskaleut (), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of w ...

: ''Kigini'') is an island in the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...

Geography

Arakamchechen lies north of

Cape Chaplino Cape Chaplin or Cape Chaplino ( rus, Мыс Чаплина; Mys Chaplina; Eskimo–Aleut: Angazik) is a cape pointing eastward in the Bering Sea in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. The area was first surveyed described an ...

, close to the coast of Chukotka. It is separated from the continental shore by an 8 km wide sound. This island is inhabited; the main settlement is Yanrakynnot village. Arakamchechen Island is 32 km long and has a maximum width of 21 km. It has a mountainous interior. South of it lies

Yttygran Island Yttygran Island ( rus, Итыгран; Eskimo–Aleut: ''Siklyuk'') is an island in the Bering Sea northwest of Cape Chaplino, close to the coast of Chukotka. Nowadays this island is popular with ecotourists. Beluga whales are common in the wa ...

and west of it Penkigney Bay. There is a 5 km wide sound between the two islands.

Administration

Administratively Arakamchechen Island belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. Nowadays this island is popular with tourists who come to enjoy the wildlife. Many

walrus The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large pinniped, flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in ...

es live in rookeries in the shores of this island.BBC - Science & Nature - Articles - Explorer's Guide to the Arctic
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References

External links

Pictures of walrus hunters in Arakamchechen Island
Islands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Islands of the Bering Sea Providensky District {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub