Cape Chaplin or Cape Chaplino ( rus, Мыс Чаплина; Mys Chaplina;

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: Angazik) is a cape pointing eastward in the

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in the

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of the

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. The area was first surveyed described and mapped by Russian mariner Count

Fyodor Petrovich Litke Fyodor, Fedor (russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian form of the name "Theodore" meaning “God’s Gift”. Fedora () is the feminine form. Fyodor and Fedor are two English transliterations of the same Russian name. It may refer to: Giv ...

during the

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and it was named by Litke in honor of midshipman Peter Avraamovich Chaplin, a member of the expedition.

Geography

This headland is located in an area of narrow beach ridges and

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s which form a roughly triangular lagoon. Cape Chaplino was the site of the Yupik village named Ungazik (Chaplino; Unisak on

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charts) which gave its name to the Chaplinski dialect of the

Siberian Yupik language Central Siberian Yupik, (also known as Siberian Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, Yuit, Yoit, "St. Lawrence Island Yupik", and in Russia "Chaplinski Yupik" or Yuk) is an endangered Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Siberian Yupik people along the ...

. The cape is shown as "Indian Point" on a USC&GS chart from 1897.US Coast and Geodetic Surve
Historical maps and Charts project
query Bering. (a) select Chart 9302_7-1945; (b)select Chart 366-00-1897

Bibliography

*Reid, Anna (2002) ''The Shaman's Coat A Native history of Siberia'' Phoenix (Orion Books)London paperback edition 2003

References

External links

Ungazik, village on Cape Chaplino, in the early twentieth century
* Krupnik, Igor and Mikhail Chlenov (2007)

''Études/Inuit/Studies 31'' (1-2) pp 59–81. Chaplin Landforms of the Bering Sea Providensky District {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub