Cape Shelagsky

{{Short description|Cape in Chukotskiy autonomous region}}

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| other_name = {{lang|ru|Мыс Шелагский}}
Erri / Ytrin

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| location = Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, {{RUS}}

| water_bodies = East Siberian Sea, Chaun Bay

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Cape Shelagsky or Cape Shelag ({{langx|ru|Мыс Шелагский}}; {{langx|ckt|Ытрин|translit=Ytrin}}), also known as Erri by the Siberian Yupik,Arutyunov S. A & Sergeev D. A., Ancient cultures of the Asian Eskimos: (Uelen burial ground). Moscow: Nauka, 1968, p.210 ISBN 9785445835424 is a headland situated in eastern Siberia, Russia on the shores of the East Siberian Sea.Google Earth

The cape was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky. M. A. Sergeev, Экспедиция В.П. Врангеля и Ф.Ф. Матюшкина и изучение малых народов крайнего Северо-Востока. p. 416

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 northwesternmost subrange of the Chukotka Mountains.Igor S. Zonn, Andrey G. Kostianoy, Aleksandr Semenov, [https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-24237-8_114 The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia], Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016), p. 68

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