Overview of
Chukotka [ Top ]
Chukotka and the Chukchi Peninsula:
an introduction with maps
Introduction to Chukotka: travel, weather, geography, history, ecology, ethnic groups - Chukchi and
Eskimo - and more
Chukotka: with details on the people, wildlife, terrain, news, Beringia that once linked Siberia
and Alaska, travel including photo
tours, many photos
Chukotka Administrative Status: autonomous district with 8 areas
· Chukotka Automomous Area, its
capital Anadyr
· Chukotka Autonomous Okrug:
far northeast Russia
Eskimo Society of
Chukotka “Yupik” founded in 1990 to unite the peoples of Chukota, preserve
their culture and way of life, address economic difficulties
Geography
of Chukotka: terrain, rivers, locations
Berginia Heritage Program links Alaska and
Chukotka peoples, cultures.
· Map
of Beringia from Siberia's Lena River to Canada's Mackenzie River
· Photo
Galleries: 9 photo collections landscape, plants, wildlife, peoples
Chukotka and Alaska: historical
timeline of interactions between the regions
Economic
Development in Chukotka in partnership with Alaska's Inupiat
· Dire
Straits Across the Bering: economic challenges in recent years
Chukotka Home Page: business site with map, oil news, from 2001
Endangered Chukchi Language:
and what the people call themselves
· Chukchi language including
alphabet, pronunciation
Chukchi Photos: 1980-1990 photographs of Chukota, wildlife,
people
Photo Gallery - Chukotka Terrain: from the coast at Plover Bay to a view of an Arctic sunset - in a series of photo
collections of villages, people including children of Novoe Chaplino,
sled dog race there, and more
Travel to Chukotka &
Kamchatka: with a slideshow of 66 pictures that includes Bering
Island at
dawn, a ritual site located on Ittigran Island with whale rib, and a Chukchi
family at
Yandrakinot with their dog
Chukotka:
with sled dog and reindeer photos, and capital Anadyr [in Russian]
Chukotka Maps [ Top ]
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Map: with the Chukchi Peninsula like a nose at far right, the Anadyr Country
with Markovo at the center
Chukotka Map: in relation to Siberia, Kamchatka, Alaska
Eastern Siberia Map: Chukchi Peninsula, Kamchatka Peninsula,
Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido, Aleutians, and Alaska in context
Northeast Siberia Map: 1882 map of Chukotka and Kamchatka with
historic names of bays, capes, rivers and villages
Northeast Siberia & Russian Far
East Map: with Lake Baikal, Amur River flowing east to Sakhalin
Island in Sea of Okhotsk, Lena River flowing north to Laptev Sea, other rivers such as
Indigirka and Kolyma, the town of Anadyr at mouth of Anadyr River in Chukotka, plus a
topographical map of Northeast
Siberia, with rivers, mountains, seas, and large version
Map
of Siberia's Indigenous People: with Chukotka, home of the Chukchi, Chuvan and Eskimo, at upper right
Map of Providenija
Area: Siberian Eskimo enclave including Sireniki, the point
closest to St. Lawrence Island
Chukotka's
Wildlife: Animals & Plants
[ Top ]
Birds of Chukotka: with
pictures of Chaun Bay on the Arctic coast of Chukotka, Cape Dezhnev or East Cape at the
Bering Strait, the tundra of Wrangel Island, and Lake El'gygytgyn in the interior. Also
the birds of Kamchatka and Kurile Islands to the south
Birds & Sea Mammals of the Bering Sea
Flora & Fauna of Chukotka: scroll down for vegetation and wild animals of
Chukotka, its rivers and bordering seas, including walrus, salmon
Polar Bears of Chukotka &
Alaska: with photo, map
Reindeer of Chukotka:
a variety established about 1000 A.D.,
although domestication of reindeer likely started 5,000 years ago in the Altai
Walrus & Whales of Chukotka: including Pacific walrus, bowhead and beluga whales, with sea mammals of
other areas of the North Pacific such as the Kuriles, Wrangel Island, more, also on this
page
Chukotka's
Regions [ Top ]
Anadyr River Region
Anadyr River: photo of the wide and winding Anadyr near Snezhnoe, about 300 km west of
the mouth of the river
Anadyr River: major watershed of three main rivers, Anadyr, Velikaya and Kanchalan,
with major salmon runs. Image of salmon drying near Markovo
Anadyrskii Region: the villages, populations and geography of the interior region of
Chukotka along the river, with photo of the river
Mouth of Anadyr
River & Novo-Mariinsk: photographs from the late 1800s of
the river and the settlement now the city of Anadyr
Chukotka Interior &
Tundra
Chukchi
Peninsula Tundra: ecosystem,
photos, and Tundra & Village with photographs of the land
Snowy Mountains of Chukotka:
with tree-lined river valley
Tundra Reindeer Camp and photo collection of Reindeer Chukchi
and some Chukotka terrain
Bering Strait, East Cape
& Uelen Area
"Ice Curtain Thaws"
- story about the
resumption of Eskimo contacts across the Bering Strait, with map showing Big, Little
Diomede islands
Ekven burial ground & settlement -
Uelen, Chukotka: this
500 BC to 1000 AD site gives a look at Early Whale Hunter cultures, includes walrus ivory
tools, human burial in a boat, dog burial. Ekven shamaness burial
Provideniya & St.
Lawrence Island
Ruins of a Whalebone House: at Avan near Provideniya, Chukotka
St.
Lawrence Island: maps
and photos, and St. Lawrence Island
Whale Bone Alley - Yttigran Island
