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  Cape Chelyuskin - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The continental mainland stretches from the southern end of the Malay Peninsula to Cape Chelyuskin in Siberia.
In fact the northernmost point of Taymyr, Cape Chelyuskin, is by far the nearest point of any continent to the North Pole at 77deg.44'N. Using Mercator's or Bartholomew's ‘The Times' projections...
A cape of north-central Russia on the Taymyr Peninsula.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Cape_Chelyuskin.html   (196 words)

  
  Capes And Points All Over the World quiz
This cape near the Strait of Gibraltar was the scene of a decisive battle during the Napoleon Wars (1805).
This cape is the eastern extremity of Africa.
This cape is the southern extremity of Africa.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz120363dc9930.html   (304 words)

  
 Cape Chelyuskin - TheBestLinks.com - Eurasia, Russia, 1742, 1989, ...
Cape Chelyuskin, Eurasia, Russia, 1742, 1989, Severnaya Zemlya, Stub, Semion...
Cape Chelyuskin is the northernmost point of the Eurasian continent, lying at the northernmost tip of the Taimyr peninsula, south of Severnaya Zemlya.
A hydrometeorological observatory was established at the cape in 1989.
www.thebestlinks.com /Cape_Chelyuskin.html   (129 words)

  
 Cruising Club of America
As they were approaching Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost point on the coast and the halfway location on the Northeast Passage, they received a radio message from Campina that she was disabled in the ice and needed to be towed about 30 miles to deeper water to reach a rescue vessel.
With help from a large icebreaker nearby she was able to reach open water and proceed past Cape Chelyuskin and on to the west.
Their optimism was soon shattered when the learned a very severe northwesterly gale was imminent and that they would have to retreat to the lee of Bolshevik Island.
www.cruisingclub.org /awards/awards_bluewater_2005.htm   (1232 words)

  
 Vagabond, polar yacht, logistics for expeditions : Direct.en
From Chelyuskin Cape, to cross the Laptev Sea and to reach the Lena Delta, we have to go south-west around a large ice pack field, following the coast for about 3 days.
Cape Chelyuskin, 12th of August 2002, Vagabond drops anchor at 17:50 in front of the military base, shelter from the swell with some ice floe.
Longitudes are passing in a constant stream (Cape Chelyuskin, 77-43N 104-14E, is the same meridian than Singapore!), Vagabond is now heading to the south-east, accross Laptev Sea.
vagabond.fr /direct   (3106 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He sailed down the Lena from Yakutsk, accompanied by his wife, but was hampered by ice, which only left a passage of two hundred yards along the^ coast, and was at last obliged to winter at the mouth of the Olenek.
But in 1742, Chelyuskin reached the northernmost point of the continent in sledges, in latitude 77° 34' N., doubled it, and returned to the mouth of the Taimyr.
After Bering's Strait, the most important discovery of the Russians during the last century was that of the Islands of New Siberia in the Polar ocean, opposite the coast between the mouths of the Lena and Indigirka.
lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/mtfgc/09127/7250667.txt   (265 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The land was free of snow and covered with a grey-green vegetation consisting of grasses, mosses and lichens.
On the 19th the vessels continued their course along the coast of the Chelyuskin Peninsula, through a dense fog, which occasionally lightened up so that the contour of the land could be distinguished.
The air had cleared and the cape lay before them lighted up by the sun and free from snow.
lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/mtfgc/09127/9020820.txt   (280 words)

  
 Geomagnetic Field Data Plot
Concerning four stations, Pebek (PBK), Tixie (TIK), Cape Chelyuskin (CCS), Norilsk (NOK), the green line which is represented as D component actually shows the E component.
DATA POLICY: All data presented here are only for use in quick-look.
The contact information is available from the links of the station name listed below.
kogma.nict.go.jp /cgi-bin/geomag-interface   (130 words)

  
 Ernst Krenkel, callsign RAEM, Hero of the Soviet Union
On the backside, there was a further explanation: "RAEM was the callsign of s/s Chelyuskin, crushed by the ice in the Arctic Sea in 1934.
Now, the ice-breaker Chelyuskin was planned to go along the northern coast, and the work was to be finished before the winter.
There, at Cape Olovyanniy, he was to be the chief of a wintering camp.
goto.glocalnet.net /sm5iq/raemeng.html   (3149 words)

  
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If you remember, I recommended his keeping, if possible, in the line of and near the meridian of Cape Chelyuskin, or not farther eastward than the 100th degree, and to avoid the dangerous vicinity of the New Siberian Islands.
On the other hand, should Nansen have been prevented from rounding the Chelyuskin Cape, or have been compelled to retreat to Dickson's Harbour for the winter, then we ought to have heard of him by the many natives who roam about those parts.
This absence of news leads me to think that he has rounded the Cape, in which case I hope he has gone well northward, where the strong and steady currents from the Kara Sea join the stream of these mighty Siberian rivers.
home.planet.nl /~keijz504/common/articles/polar/1894_wiggins.html   (1569 words)

  
 AWI: Polarstern unterwegs
We are on passage back to Tromsø, and are just rounding the most northerly point on the Eurasian continent, Cape Chelyuskin, in dense fog.
Because of the long trip back, the research work had to be concluded at 02:25 Moscow time this morning with an Agassiz trawl, after 81 stations in all.
From Cape Town to Neumayer Station, the Weddell Sea and an to Punta Arenas (Chile)
www.awi-potsdam.de /AWI/KAH97/Weeklyreports/Polarstern/polarstern-180898-e.html   (831 words)

  
 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: T :: Taimyr Autonomous Region
The coast is washed by the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea.
There is the northernmost point of Russia - Cape Chelyuskin.
Mid-annual temperature in Cape Chelyuskin is -14,1 degrees centigrade, in Dudinka -10,1 and in Khatanga -13,2 degrees.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/t/taimyr_autonomous_region.shtml   (470 words)

  
 HKHPE 10 04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Map: Where the steppe bison (Bison priscus) has lived in Eurasia during the time of the woolly mammoth: up to the shores of the Arctic Sea, up to the top of Taimyr Peninsula, at Cape Chelyuskin, near 77.4° North.
The steppe bison has grazed in North America and Eurasia up to the shores of the Arctic Sea, together with the woolly mammoth (R.-D. Kahlke, 1994, Plate 20).
Its remains they have found at least up to 77.4°N, at Cape Chelyuskin, the northern tip of Taimyr Peninsula.
hanskrause.de /HKHPE/hkhpe_10_04.htm   (621 words)

  
 Nordenskjold, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After these reconnoitering trips, he set out in the Vega in 1878, rounded Cape Chelyuskin, but was stopped by ice at the entrance to the Bering Strait.
In 1879 he passed East Cape and sailed into the Bering Sea (northward extension of the Pacific).
He completed the trip to China and returned to Sweden in 1880 and was created baron.
www.bartleby.com /65/no/NordnskNAE.html   (319 words)

  
 Motoring Life Home - Irelands Longest Established Motoring Magazine
Last year they were brought to a stop by polar pack ice off Asias most northerly point, Cape Chelyuskin, and they had to retreat back southward to the village of Khatanga.
Getting past Cape Chelyuskin this year was a high point, marked with tots of Irish Whiskey, a change from the more usual Vodka.
On their return to Westport, expected in the last week of September, ‘Northabout’ will be the first vessel ever, any size, any nationality, to have completed a westward Polar Circumnavigation.
www.motoringlife.ie /news_volvo09.htm   (283 words)

  
 Latitude 38 Features: Circumnavigating, Siberian Style
According to Siberia's crew, one of the most exciting moments of their journey was arriving at Cape Chelyuskin on August 20, the northernmost point on the Asian continent.
Not surprisingly, Siberia was only the third vessel ever to reach Chelyuskin without the aid of an icebreaker - but neither of her predecessors continued on around the world.
But because the expedition is two months behind schedule, the original plan for a Cape Horn rounding has been quashed.
www.latitude38.com /features/Siberia.htm   (1897 words)

  
 "The Hundredth meridian" Expedition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Via Indochina, Tibet, Gobi (desert), Mongolia, Baikal (Lake), down the rivers Lena and Kotui, then around Taimyr Peninsula towards the Cape Chelyuskin.
Below you can find the story told by Nikolai Rundquist how he has got the design of “the Hundredth meridian” expedition.
For the next voyage it was considered to cross Russia from south to north (from the mountain Bazarduzu in Dagestan till the Cape Chelyuskin on Taimyr Peninsula).
geg.chem.usu.ru /100meridian/100meridian   (404 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Chelyuskin, Cape (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Chelyuskin, Cape (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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More articles from AllRefer Reference on Chelyuskin, Cape
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Chelyusk.html   (140 words)

  
 Ullutau.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The flight will take you across the Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost point of Eurasia.
The flight will take you across the Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost point of Eurasia.Severnaja Zemlja was the last archipelago to be discovered in the beginning of the 20-th century.
In a small museum you will learn more about the first polar expedition to the islands which took place about 70 years ago.Today a small military detachment and a few glacier scientists live on the island.
www.ullutau.com /index.php?page=8   (660 words)

  
 Arctic Postal History 1987-89
Six Russians and six Canadians comprised a joint team that walked over 1000 miles across the ice to the North Pole as a gesture of friendship.
The trip, lasting three and a half months, started on March 7th from Anadyr, Siberia and ended at Cape Columbia, Canada.
A hydrometeorological observatory was established at the Cape, named for U.M. Fedorova, in 1989.
www.south-pole.com /aspp037.htm   (217 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Emergency in Taimyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There is still no information about the Russian Mi-6 helicopter that has gone missing in rough weather; the helicopter left Norilsk on Wednesday; it was to follow the route Norilsk – Dixon Island – Cape Eclipse – Cape Chelyuskin.
Eight crew members and twelve passengers were on board the helicopter.
The weather conditions are unfavorable for rescue operations: it is raining and snowing heavily; the temperature is near freezing.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/07/11/32271_.html   (246 words)

  
 South Pole, North Pole News and Guide
The plan includes stops in the military areas of Cape Chelyuskin and Sredny to re-fuel before continuing on to Cape Arktichesky, the starting point of the expedition.
The availability of helicopter assistance for the pick-up operation has also been extended, and in case the terrain condition around the Cape is unfavorable, the expedition will be flown further north to more favorable ice conditions.
Vicaar therefore advised their clients intending to leave from Cape Arcticheskiy to instead go for a 2 degrees expedition this year and try a full crossing next year.
www.thepoles.com /story/stories/ThebattlefortheNorthPole-fullstoryApr22005.shtml   (1868 words)

  
 Severnaya Zemlya --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Severnaya Zemlya lies immediately north of Cape Chelyuskin, the most northerly point in Siberia, from which it is separated by Vilkitsky Strait.
The Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, which has a total area of 14,175 square miles (36,712 square km), consists of four large islands, Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsi, Bolshevik, Komsomolets, and Pioner, as well as a number of smaller ones.
The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Chelyuskin, north of which lie Vilkitsky Strait and Severnaya Zemlya.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9066959   (736 words)

  
 MBG: Research: Russia: Ornamental plants from Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This country stretches from high northern latitudes at Cape Chelyuskin (77° 43' N) to the south at Kushka on the Afghan frontier in Tajikistan (35° 08' N).
East to west, the country extends from the Baltic sea (19° 38' E) to Cape Dezhnev (169° 40' W).
If you were to travel between its farthest points from East to West, you would cross a staggering 11 time zones.
www.mobot.org /MOBOT/Research/russia/climatic.shtml   (3184 words)

  
 HKHPE 18 01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The frozen remains of the steppe bison, they have found in northwestern North America and northern Siberia, up to the shores of the Arctic Sea.
In northern Siberia, they have found its frozen remains up to Cape Chelyuskin, at the northern tip of Taimyr Peninsula, at 77.5°N. See, please, also map of late Pleistocene range of steppe bison in Kahlke, R.-D. The bison has lived up there on zonal steppe and forest-steppe, not on arctic tundra.
In Eastern Siberia, the bison has lived in historical times up to the headwaters of the Lena River, near 61°N. From Cape Chelyuskin, at the northern tip of Taimyr Peninsula.
hanskrause.de /HKHPE/hkhpe_18_01.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Background
In 1617-1620 a Russian trading venture circumvented the most northerly part of Eurasia, Chelyuskin Cape.
Among its leaders were Dimitri Laptev and Vasily Chelyuskin.
Separate detachments marched and sailed throughout the vast area.
www.northabout.com /background.html   (980 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - ASW Trawlers
HMS Cape Chelyuskin (FY 119) (lost 29 Apr, 1940)
HMS Cape Passaro (FY 270) (lost 21 May, 1940)
HMS Cape Siretoko (FY 263) (lost 29 Apr, 1940)
uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=332   (492 words)

  
 Asia --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
N), to the north; the tip of the Malay Peninsula, Cape Piai, or Bulus (1°16
N), to the south; Cape Baba in Turkey (26°4
E) to the west; and Cape Dezhnev (Dezhnyov), or East Cape (169°40
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9110518   (1911 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Abnormal warmth has swept over much of Russia's Arctic lands, both in Europe and in Siberia.
Tuesday and Wednesday, temperatures 30 to 40 degrees above normal spread widely over northern and northwestern Siberia with Cape Chelyuskin, Asia`s northernmost mainland, warming above 20 degrees both days.
Normally this time of year, readings would hold no higher than the teens below zero.
www.weatherwatchers.org /archive/highlights/accuworld-041222a.txt   (435 words)

  
 Russia - Search for disappeared Mi-6 helicopter underway on Dixon Island
A helicopter of the Emergency Situations Ministry will follow the route of the disappeared Mi-6 on Dixon Island.
The Mi-6 was flying from Norilsk to Cape Chelyuskin with stopovers on Dixon Island and the Eclipse spot.
The Mi-6 with registration number 21072 of the Valek airline departed from Norilsk at 1 p.m.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/714269/posts   (422 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Emergency in Taimyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Eight crew members and twelve passengers were on board the helicopter-->
Eight crew members and twelve passengers were on board the helicopter More details...
The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
english.pravda.ru /main/2002/07/11/32271.html   (2229 words)

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