Location of the Chukchi Peninsula in Far East Siberia.Map showing the proximity of the Chukchi peninsula in Russia to theSeward Peninsula inAmerica.Chukchi Peninsula. US military map 1947.
TheChukchi Peninsula (alsoChukotka Peninsula orChukotski Peninsula;Russian:Чуко́тский полуо́стров,Chukotskiy poluostrov, short formRussian:Чуко́тка,Chukotka), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula ofAsia. Its eastern end is atCape Dezhnev near the village ofUelen. TheChukotka Mountains are located in the central/western part of the peninsula, which is bounded by theChukchi Sea to the north, theBering Sea to the south, and theBering Strait to the east, where at its easternmost point it is only about 60 km (37 mi) fromSeward Peninsula inAlaska; this is the smallest distance between the land masses of Eurasia andNorth America. The peninsula is part ofChukotka Autonomous Okrug ofRussia.[1]
In the Bering Strait about halfway between the peninsula and the Seward Peninsula are the fairly smallDiomede Islands; the western one isBig Diomede, Russia and the eastern one isLittle Diomede Island, Alaska. The much largerSt. Lawrence Island, Alaska, is about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of the peninsula's southernmost point.
Aĭnana, L., and Richard L. Bland.Umiak the traditional skin boat of the coast dwellers of the Chukchi Peninsula : compiled in the communities of Provideniya and Sireniki, Chukotka Autonomous Region, Russia 1997-2000. Anchorage: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 2003.
Dinesman, Lev Georgievich.Secular dynamics of coastal zone ecosystems of the northeastern Chukchi Peninsula Chukotka : cultural layers and natural depositions from the last millennia. Tübingen [Germany]: Mo Vince, 1999.ISBN3-934400-03-5
Dikov, Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich.Asia at the Juncture with America in Antiquity The Stone Age of the Chukchi Peninsula. St. Petersburg: "Nauka", 1993.
Frazier, Ian,Travels in Siberia, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. Travelogue in Siberia.
Portenko, L. A., and Douglas Siegel-Causey.Birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island = Ptitsy Chukotskogo Poluostrova I Ostrova Vrangelya. New Delhi: Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., by Amerind, 1981.
