Cape Shelagsky or Cape Shelag (; ), also known as Erri by the
Siberian Yupik
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, is a headland situated in eastern
Siberia
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, Russia on the shores of the
East Siberian Sea
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.
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The cape was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky.
Geography
It is the eastern headland at the entrance of Chaun Bay. The cape is located at the western end of the
Shelag Range
The Shelag Range, Shelag Ridge () is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Federal subjects of Russia, Russian Federation. The area of the ran ...
, the northwesternmost subrange of the
Chukotka Mountains
The Chukotka Mountains () or Chukotka Upland (), is a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.''The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia'' Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016), p. 68