Cape Chukotsky

 ( Landforms Of The Bering Sea ) 

Cape Chukotsky is located in the south-east of the Chukotka Peninsula, at the east entrance to the Providence Bay and the northern boundary of Gulf of Anadyr; it borders the Bering Sea and Bering Strait. This rocky cape hosts a bird colony with a population of one thousand , pelagic cormorants, black-legged kittiwakes, , and .Kondratiev, A. Ya. (1997) "Экологический мониторинг на морском побережье Северо-Востока России". Magadan

The cape was discovered by the First Kamchatka Expedition on 8 August 1728. On that day, a boat of eight Chukchi people men approached an expedition ship, which hinted Aleksei Chirikov to choose the name for the cape.Dukalskaya M. V. Первая Камчатская экспедиция . The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic. polarmuseum.ru