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A cape (formerly Severnyi), located in the northeast of Asia, which juts out into the Chukchi Sea, Russia. It is the northernmost point of the peninsula about 2 km in width, located between the Zapadnaya (Western) and Vostochnaya (Eastern) bays and projected to the north of the general direction of the coast for about 3 km. It was first mentioned and mapped in 1871 by I.I. Billings during his overland passage from Mechigmen Bay to Chaun Bay and the river of Big Anyuy. A polar station was opened in 1936. In 1929, the Soviet ship “Stavropol” and the American fishing schooner “Nanook” wintered at this Cape. Two US aircraft took furs from “Nanook” by permission of the Soviet government, and, during the second flight, one of the planes crashed in the area of the river of Amguema.
The Cape was named in 1935 in honor of the great Russian explorer of the Arctic, prominent public figure, and scientist Otto Schmidt.
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A village in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Until 2008, it was the...
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(2016). Cape Schmidt. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_113
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