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Maly Chaunsky Strait

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Until the 19th century, the Maly Chaunsky Strait had the Russian name Travyanaya duct, which is associated with the erroneous assumption that later turned out to be that the bottom of the strait was overgrown with grass. The outdated Chukchi name is Ayoka-Pelintkir, the modern one is Ayopelgykytryn
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The relatively large island of Mosey is located in the eastern part of the strait. The shores of the strait are low (in the southwestern part they are steep in places), with extensive silty drylands and sandy
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deposits at the bottom of the Maly Chaunsky Strait. In Soviet times, a project was proposed to block the strait with a dam followed by drainage in order to organize the extraction of tin.
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There is evidence that with distant southerly winds, when the strait became very shallow, the Chukchi crossed it on foot from the mainland to the Aion Island.
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grow in the northern part of the strait. The water area of the strait is inhabited by pink salmon and chum salmon, anadromous loach, and capelin.
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The first Russian navigator to cross the strait was Nikita Shalaurov in 1761 on the way back of his expedition in search of a strait to the
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brackish-water lakes and halophytic marches in the interlakes.
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The Maly Chaunsky Strait is the site of the Siberian
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animals were found in the steep banks of the strait.
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Maly Chaunsky Strait is located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
69°38′29″N 168°10′18″E / 69.64139°N 168.17167°E / 69.64139; 168.17167
Basin
Russia
Russian
strait
Chaunskaya Bay
East Siberian Sea
Ayon Island
Kyttyk Peninsula
Chaunsky District
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Russia
spits
thermokarst
Middle Pleistocene
Pacific Ocean
Brown algae
eider
cassiterite


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