Èrvykynnot

Èrvykynnot lies among the mountains at the head of the Gulf of the Cross, an inlet on the southern side of the Chukchi Peninsula. Its Chukchi name evokes sharp, hard ground. The gulf was placed on Russian maps in the seventeenth century and named by Vitus Bering's expedition in 1728. Its deep waters and surrounding tundra belong to a coast long used by reindeer herders and marine hunters.