Guvrel

Guvrel lies on Providence Bay, a fjord some 34 km long cut into the southern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula. Its deep, sheltered water is rare on this exposed Bering Sea shore. Yupik communities such as Ungaziq, near Cape Chaplino to the east, hunted the whales that migrate past this coast, and on nearby Yttygran Island lines of whale skulls and jawbones, with meat pits behind them, formed Whale Bone Alley, a shrine and butchering ground shared by villages along the coast. Russian explorers first reached the bay in 1660 with the expedition of Kurbat Ivanov.