Cape Olyutor (Russian: мыс Олюторский) is a cape in the Bering Sea, in Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It points south at the southern end of the Olyutor Peninsula, the southern end of the Olyutor Range.[1] It was named after the Alyutor ethnic group.
Cape Olyutor
Russian: мыс Олюторский | |
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  Cape Olyutor | |
| Coordinates: 59°55′33″N 170°17′16″E / 59.92583°N 170.28778°E | |
| Location | Olyutor Peninsula Kamchatka Krai, Russia |
| Offshore water bodies | Olyutorsky Bay Bering Sea |
| Area | |
| • Total | Russian Far East |
The Kereks, a former maritime hunting people of the Russian Bering Sea coast, were living between the cape and the Gulf of Anadyr.[citation needed]
See also
editReferences
edit- Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.
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