Penkigney Bay (, ; , ) is a bay of the

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on the eastern coast of the

Chukotka Peninsula The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; , ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form , ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula of Asia. Its eastern end is at Cape Dezhnev near the village ...

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. Administratively the bay is part of the

Providensky District Providensky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Urèlḳujym rajon''; Yupik languages, Yupik: Уӷрилӄуйым район) is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #45-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Ch ...

of Chukotka.

Geography

Penkigney Bay is a

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. The inner part of it stretches in a southwest/northeast direction for about 15 km and then it bends and opens towards the southeast for about 8 km until its mouth. I has an average width of about 4 km.''Penkingney'' - article from the

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There are two inlets and a coastal lagoon enclosed by a landspit inside the bay. Merkinkan and Achinkinkan are two small islands located at the entrance of the fjord on its northern side, and beyond the point on the southern side lies Alera Bay, a small cove. There are no permanent settlements in the shores of this bay.

History

This bay was first surveyed described and mapped by midshipman Makar Ratmanov during the First Kamchatka Expedition in the autumn of 1828 led by Russian mariner Count

Fyodor Petrovich Litke Fyodor, Fedor () or Feodor is the Russian-language form of the originally Greek-language name "Theodore" () meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". Fedora () is the feminine form. "Fyodor" and "Fedor" are two English transliterations of the same Ru ...

. Penkigney bay was visited later in the 19th century by

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (; 18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (ba ...

during his Vega Expedition that made the

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. Nordenskiöld called the bay "Konyam Bay":

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Weather in Penkigney Bay
Bodies of water of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Bays of the Bering Sea Fjords of Russia Providensky District {{fjord-stub

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