Cape Olyutorskiy

Coordinates: 59°55′N 170°14′E / 59.917°N 170.233°E / 59.917; 170.233

Cape Olyutorskiy (Russian: Олюторский) is a cape pointing south in the Bering Sea, in Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It was named after Alyutors, a Northern ethnic group.

The Kereks, a former maritime hunting people of the Russian Bering Sea coast, were living between the cape and the Gulf of Anadyr.

See also

References

  • Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.


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