Cape Chaplino Explained

Cape Chaplin
Other Name:	Russian: Мыс Чаплина Angazik
Type:	Cape
Map:	Russia
Map Width:	260px
Location:	Chukotka,
Water Bodies:	Chukchi Sea
Coordinates:	64.4048°N -172.2275°W

Cape Chaplin or Cape Chaplino (Russian: Мыс Чаплина; Mys Chaplina; Eskimo–Aleut: Angazik) is a cape pointing eastward in the Bering Sea in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation.

The area was first surveyed described and mapped by Russian mariner Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke during the First Kamchatka Expedition and it was named by Litke in honor of midshipman Peter Avraamovich Chaplin, a member of the expedition.^[1]

Geography

This headland is located in an area of narrow beach ridges and swales which form a roughly triangular lagoon.^[2]

Cape Chaplino was the site of the Yupik village named Ungazik (Chaplino; Unisak on United States Coast and Geodetic Survey charts) which gave its name to the Chaplinski dialect of the Siberian Yupik language. The cape is shown as "Indian Point" on a USC&GS chart from 1897.^[3]

Bibliography

• Reid, Anna (2002) The Shaman's Coat A Native history of Siberia Phoenix (Orion Books)London paperback edition 2003

External links

• Ungazik, village on Cape Chaplino, in the early twentieth century
• Krupnik, Igor and Mikhail Chlenov (2007). The end of “Eskimo land”: Yupik relocation in Chukotka, 1958-1959 Études/Inuit/Studies 31 (1-2) pp 59–81.

Notes and References

1. Leontyev VV & Novikov KA, Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR. Magadan. Magadan Publishing House, 1989, p 407
2. Web site: Mys Chaplina. Mapcarta. 8 April 2016.
3. US Coast and Geodetic Survey Historical maps and Charts project query Bering. (a) select Chart 9302_7-1945; (b)select Chart 366-00-1897