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Saint Lawrence Bay
Saint Lawrence Bay is located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Saint Lawrence Bay
Saint Lawrence Bay
Location in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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Location Far North
Coordinates 65°40′00″N 171°05′00″W / 65.6667°N 171.0833°W / 65.6667; -171.0833
Native name Залив Лаврентия Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help)
Ocean/sea sources Bering Sea
Basin countries Russia
Max. length 45 km (28 mi)
Max. width 8 km (5.0 mi)
Settlements Port Lawrence

The Saint Lawrence Bay (Russian: Залив Лаврентия; Zaliv Lavrentiya) is a bay in the Bering Sea on the eastern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Federation.

Geography

This bay is located very close to the Bering Strait, which lies only a few km to the NE.

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 Cape Hargilah is the village of Port Lawrence.

Bering Strait
NASA picture of the Bering Strait area; St. Lawrence Bay can be clearly seen on the lower left side of the image.

History

British Captain James Cook landed for a few hours in St. Lawrence Bay and met some of the local Chukchi people in August 1778, but he didn't linger in the bay.

This bay was first surveyed by Russian mariner Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1828.

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