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Kyttyk Peninsula
The Kyttyk Peninsula, commonly known as Kyttyk (), is a peninsula on the northern coast of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, washed by the East Siberian Sea. The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Peschany. The territory of the peninsula consists of a swampy area. It is separated from the Ayon Island by the Maly Chaunsky Strait. The average height of the surface is 5 meters. The highest parts range from 15 to 50 meters. In the north-eastern part of the peninsula, this height ends on the coast and forms a steep coast. The smooth part of the peninsula is covered with sand. The lakes in the western part have a circular shape, and their shores are sloping. The climate is arctic. According to the Rauchua meteorological station, the average annual temperature is −10.6 ° С, the average temperature in January is −26 ° С, and in June it is + 7.6 ° С. The annual rainfall is 140 mm. North wind is constantly blowing on the shores. The snow melts in late May and settles in Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Asia
North Asia or Northern Asia () is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geography, geographical terms and consists of three federal districts of Russia: Ural Federal District, Ural, Siberian Federal District, Siberian, and the Far Eastern Federal District, Far Eastern. North Asia is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to its north; by Eastern Europe to its west; by Central Asia and East Asia to its south; and by the Pacific Ocean and Northern America to its east. It covers an area of , or 8.8% of Earth's total land area; and is the largest subregion of Asia by area, occupying approx. 29.4% of Asia's land area, but is also the least populated, with a population of around 37 million, accounting for merely 0.74% of Asia's population. Topographically, the region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its eastern part, which lies on the North American Plate, North American, Amurian Plate, Amurian, and Okhotsk Plates. It is divided by three major plains: the West Siberian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Siberian Sea
The East Siberian Sea (; ) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east. This sea borders on the Laptev Sea to the west and the Chukchi Sea to the east. This sea is one of the least studied in the Arctic area. It is characterized by severe climate, low water salinity, and a scarcity of flora, fauna and human population, as well as shallow depths (mostly less than 50 m), slow sea currents, low tides (below 25 cm), frequent fogs, especially in summer, and an abundance of ice fields which fully melt only in August–September. The sea shores were inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of Yukaghirs, Chukchi people, Chukchi and then Evens and Evenks, which were engaged in fishing, hunting and reindeer husbandry. They were then absorbed by Yakuts and later by Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka ( ; ), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an Autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border with the Sakha Republic to the west, Magadan Oblast to the south-west, and Kamchatka Krai to the south, as well as a Maritime boundary, maritime border on the Bering Strait with the U.S. state of Alaska to the east. Anadyr (town), Anadyr is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center, capital, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia. It is the closest point from Russia to the United States, measuring at 88.51 kilometres or 55 miles. Chukotka is primarily populated by ethnic Russians, Chukchi people, Chukchi, and other Indigenous peoples of Siberia, indigenous peoples. It is the only autonomous okrug in Russia that is not included in, or subordinate to, another federal subject, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Peschany
Cape Unslicht (, ''Mys Peschanyy'') is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. Geography Stretching out northwards NW of the Akhmatov Fjord and east of the mouth of Mikoyan Bay, this headland is the northernmost point of Bolshevik Island. Cape Unslicht is one of the landmarks defining the limits of the Laptev Sea according to the International Hydrographic Organization. History The Laptev Sea shore of present-day Severnaya Zemlya was discovered by Boris Vilkitsky in 1913 during the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service, but he was unaware that there was a strait west of the cape between what is now Bolshevik Island and the islands further north, for the straits are frozen most of the year, forming a compact whole. Named during the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev after Zofia Unslicht, a German communist figure, this headland was renamed ''Mys Peschanyy'' (Sandy Cape) in Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayon Island
Ayon Island is an island in the coast of Chukotka in the East Siberian Sea. The island itself consists mainly of low-lying tundra, and is primarily populated by the Chukchi people, who use the tundra as pasture for their reindeer herds. Geography It is located on the western side of the Chaunskaya Bay, directly off the Nutel'gyrgym Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Kolyma Gulf. The island is long and wide with an area of and a coastline of . It is generally low and flat and there are many small lakes and swamps. Ayon Island is separated from the mainland by the Maly Chaunsky Strait, a shallow channel which is barely wide in its narrowest spot. The bay to the south and east is Chaunskaya Guba. Administratively and municipally,Law #46-OZ, Article 2 Ayon Island belongs to Chaunsky District, part of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. There are two small settlements, Elvuney (now abandoned) and Ayon in the northwestern end of the island. Etymology T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maly Chaunsky Strait
The Maly Chaunsky Strait () is a shallow strait connecting the Chaunskaya Bay and the East Siberian Sea. It separates Ayon Island from the mainland (Kyttyk Peninsula). It belongs to the jurisdiction of the Chaunsky District of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Geography The relatively large island of Mosey is located in the eastern part of the strait. The shores of the strait are low (in the southwestern part they are steep in places), with extensive silty drylands and sandy spits. The coastal part of the Ayon Peninsula abounds in many thermokarst brackish-water lakes and halophytic marches in the interlakes. A huge number of bones of Middle Pleistocene animals were found in the steep banks of the strait. Historical background The first Russian navigator to cross the strait was Nikita Shalaurov in 1761 on the way back of his expedition in search of a strait to the Pacific Ocean. There is evidence that with distant southerly winds, when the strait became very shallow, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peninsulas Of Russia
A peninsula ( from ''paene'' "almost" and ''insula'' "island") is a piece of land that is bordered mostly by water but connected to mainland. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as such. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. In English, the plural of peninsula is ''peninsulas'' or, less commonly, ''peninsulae''. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the (almost closed) loop of water. Presented below is a list of peninsulas. Africa Macaronesia * Jandía, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain * Macizo de Anaga, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain * Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Island, Portugal North Africa * Cabo Blanco, Mauritania/Morocco * Cap Bon, Tunisia * Cap Zebib, Tunisia * Ceuta, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
