Cape Serdtse-Kamen (, literally translated as "Cape Heart-Stone") is a
headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Jo ...
on the northeastern coast of
Chukotka,
Russian Federation
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. It is about 140 km west of
Cape Dezhnev
Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev (; ; Iñupiaq language, Inupiaq: ''Nuuġaq''), formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny, is a Cape (geography), cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Asia. It is located on the Chukchi Peninsula i ...
, 120 km east of
Kolyuchinskaya Bay
Kolyuchin Bay (; ''Kolyuchinskaya guba'') is a large bay in the Chukchi Sea on the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia.
Administratively this bay belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation.
Geography
To the ...
and about 30 km to the east of the
Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon
The Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon (Russian: Лагуна Нэскэнпильгын) is a shallow coastal lake in the Chukchi Sea at the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia. to the east is Kolyuchinskaya Bay and west, Cape Serdtse-Kamen.
T ...
. Nearby is the village of
Enurmino
Enurmino (; Chukchi: , ''Innurmin''; Yupik language: АнушпикV.V. Leontev and K.A. Novikova, ''Топонимический словарь северо-востока СССР'' (''Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR'') (1989) Maga ...
.
Cape Serdtse-Kamen is a geographic landmark, east of which the
Chukchi Sea
The Chukchi Sea (, ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, ...
coast slants sharply to the southeast until the
Bering Strait
The Bering Strait ( , ; ) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia–United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' ...
.
History
The wreck of the Soviet steamer
Chelyuskin, which sank in 1934 during its pioneer exploration of the
Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (, shortened to Севморпуть, ''Sevmorput'') is a shipping route about long. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Ad ...
, was discovered in 2006 on the seabed at the depth of about 50 m not far from the cape. The village of
Uelen
Uelen is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Chukotsky District, just south of the Arctic Circle in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far East. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 C ...
, the
easternmost settlement in Russia, is located 150 km to the southeast of Cape Serdtse-Kamen along the coastline.
Ecology
The area around this headland is a natural habitat for the
short-tailed albatross
The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (''Phoebastria albatrus'') is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the alb ...
(''Phoebastria albatrus'').
Bowhead whales
The bowhead whale (''Balaena mysticetus''), sometimes called the Greenland right whale, Arctic whale, and polar whale, is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus '' Balaena' ...
are frequently sighted in the waters off the Serdtse-Kamen Cape.
Bowhead whales
/ref> Very large numbers of walruses have been observed resting on shore and in the shallow waters adjacent to this cape during the late autumn.
References
External links
Benthos
Unusual abundance of macrobenthos and biological invasions
Serdtse-Kamen
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