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	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: The Chukchi
		Chukchi, however, is unique in having a sharply different pronunciation when spoke by women, on the one hand, and men, on the other.
		Although Chukchi folklore tells of frequent clashes with the Eskimo, it is probable that the seaside Anqallyt are Chukchi who intermarried with Eskimos and adopted their way of life.
		The principal rituals of the coastal Chukchi involved sacrifices to the sea and the festival of the baidarka.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/chukchi.htm (1939 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chukchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chukchi Peninsula CHUKCHI PENINSULA [Chukchi Peninsula], northeastern extremity of Asia, terminating in Cape Dezhnev, Russian Far East.
		Washed by the E Siberian and Chukchi seas in the northeast, the peninsula is the eastern extension of the Anadyr mountain range.
		Chukchi Sea CHUKCHI SEA [Chukchi Sea], part of the Arctic Ocean N of the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, Wrangell Island lies to the west and the Beaufort Sea lies to the east.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Chukchi (539 words)

	Chukchi Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bordered by the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the Bering Strait to the east.
		The peninsula is part of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia.
		The peninsula lies along the Northern Sea Route (the Northeast passage).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chukchi_Peninsula (162 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Malay Peninsula MALAY PENINSULA [Malay Peninsula], southern extremity (c.70,000 sq mi/181,300 sq km) of the continent of Asia, lying between the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca on the west and the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea on the east.
		Nicoya Peninsula NICOYA PENINSULA [Nicoya Peninsula] Guanacaste and Puntarenas provs., W Costa Rica, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of Nicoya.
		Gaspé Peninsula GASPÉ PENINSULA [Gaspé Peninsula] or Gaspésie, tongue of land, E Que., Canada, between the estuary of the St. Lawrence River on the north and Chaleur Bay on the south, and extending eastward into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Peninsula&StartAt=11 (732 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Origin and Diffusion of Qanats in Arabia: New Evidence from the northern and southern Peninsula.
		Peninsula Pharmaceuticals Announces Abstracts to Be Presented at the 44th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
		Conflicts between livestock and wildlife: an analysis of legal liabilities arising from reindeer and caribou competition on the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Peninsula&StartAt=11 (575 words)

	Chukchi language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Chukchi (also spelled Chukchee, Chukot, Chuchi, or Chuchee) is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by about 10,400 people in northeastern Siberia, mainly on the Chukchi peninsula or Chukotka between the Chukchi and Bering Seas, and also in bordering areas of the Sakha Republic, Magadan Oblast', and the Koryak Autonomous Region
		Chukchi was originally written with the Latin alphabet, then in the 1930s a switch was made to the Cyrillic alphabet.
		Chukchi is can also be heard on radio and television for about an hour a day.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/chukchi.htm (222 words)

	Chukchi - Arctic Studies Center
		he Chukchi are the largest Native nation (about 15,000) on the Asian side of the North Pacific.
		Their name was given to them by Russians, who also bestowed it on the Chukchi Peninsula, Chukchi Sea, Chukchi Autonomous Area, and the Chukchi District, which faces Alaska across Bering Strait.
		Their closest kin are the Koryak people of northern Kamchatka, with whom the Chukchi share similarities in language beliefs, and historical traditions.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/chukchi.html (251 words)

	Chukchi People - Arctic People & Cultures - All Things Arctic
		Anthropologists trace the origin of the Chukchi people to the ancient residents of interior and coastal Siberia, around the northern Okhotsk Sea, that is, about a thousand miles from Bering Strait.
		During the 1920's the Chukchi were settled into permanent villages or farms under the collectivization policies of Stalin.
		The future of the Chukchi is dependent on revitalization of indigenous culture and the achievement of some degree of self-government.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /people/chukchi.aspx (518 words)

	Koryak
		A reindeer-herding group of nomads in eastern Siberia occupying a wide neck of land between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Bering[?] Sea on the east.
		To the north are their close relatives, the Chukchi in the Chukchi peninsula and, to the south, the distantly related Kamchadal on the peninsula of Kamchatka.
		Koryak and its dialect, Alyutor, are linguistically very close to Chukchi.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ko/Koryak.html (66 words)

	RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: C :: Chukotka
		Washed by the East Siberian and Chukchi seas in the Northeast, the peninsula is the eastern extension of the Anadyr mountain range.
		The Chukchi language is of the Paleosiberian family.
		The area, presently governed by Roman Abramovich, was separated from the Magadan region in 1992 and put under the direct jurisdiction of Russia, the only autonomous area to be so constituted.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/c/print/chukotka.shtml (140 words)

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		Between 1960 and 1969, the average cancer mortality rate on the Chukchi Peninsula was 171 incidences per year and per 100,000 inhabitants.
		However, there are rumours that on the territory of the Chukchi Peninsula, there are, nevertheless, uranium prospects which correspond with an increased radiation in these areas.
		However, it is easy to tell the effect it would have on the native population of the Chukchi Peninsula: It would simply cease to exist.
	www.ratical.org /radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/LarissaAbrjutina.txt (2309 words)

	Ethnologue: Russia, Asia
		Chukchi Peninsula, Chukot and Koryak National Okrug, northern Yakut ASSR, northeastern Siberia.
		Southern Kamchatka Peninsula, Koryak Autonomous District, Tigil region, primarily in Kovran and Upper Khairiuzovo villages, west coast of the Kamchatka River.
		Taimyr National Okrug, Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, Ust-Avam village in the Dudinka region; Volochanka and Novaya villages in the Khatang region.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/RusA.html (3296 words)

	Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Region Overview
		The Chukchi Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of eastern Siberia and northwest of Alaska.
		The North Chukchi basin is of interest for hydrocarbons even though it is 400-600 km off the Chukchi Peninsula.
		Separating the two Chukchi basins is the Gerald-Wrangel zone of highs, which is characterized by intensive faulting and less thickness of the sedimentary cover.
	www.lngplants.com /ChukotkaSibneft82001.html (900 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Chukchi Peninsula tundra (PA1104) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Millions of sea birds stop on the Chukotka Peninsula during their annual migrations.
		The climate here is not as cold as you might think, thanks to the moderating influence of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
		Nearly 3.3 million seabirds nest on the eastern coast of this peninsula.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1104.html (397 words)

	The Bowhead Whale: Literature Cited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since 1954 the dates of capture and length of each whale is given; 88 percent were less than 40 feet long, therefore presumably sub-adult, and one was a recently born calf.
		Author describes activities, weather and ice conditions during the time she was in the village, including information nearly a dozen crews were on the ice that year, bowheads struck but lost, and whales landed.
		After a whale has been killed and towed to the ice-edge it is cut up and divided among the villagers, a long established custom, universal among the Eskimos, no matter who killed it; but at Barrow, the whalebone must be equally divided among all the boats that were in sight when the whale was killed.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /CetaceanAssessment/bowhead/BowheadBib3.htm (14473 words)

	Russia adventure travel and cruises.
		The Chukchis also lived in the region and, like the Koryaks, fell into two camps—reindeer breeders on the tundra and sea mammal hunters on the coast.
		The indigenous peoples who endured are the Chukchis in the northeast, the Evens in the peninsula’s central region, and the Koryaks on the west coast.
		In the remote fringes of the Chukchi Peninsula, small Chukchi villages subsist on traditional walrus and seal hunting and fox farming.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /russia-travel.asp (2242 words)

	Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Region Overview
		The indigenous population of Chukchi and Yup’ik comprises 28.2 percent of the population.
		Chukotka peninsula is separated from the United States by the Bering straight and is the Russian territory closest to the Unites States, both geographically and in its potential economic and business cooperation.
		Located on the Chukotka peninsula and on the adjoining part of the mainland, Chukotka region is washed by the Arctic Ocean (the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea) and by the Pacific Ocean (the White Sea and the Okhotsk Sea).
	www.lngplants.com /ChukotkaMinerals.html (16551 words)

	Walrus - Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Pacific walrus mainly inhabits the shallow continental shelf waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas.
		In summer those associating with ice are found along the southern margin of the Chukchi pack ice, moving farther into the pack in stormy seas.
		The most recent aerial survey, flown in 1990, produced an estimate of 201,039, however a considerable portion of the eastern Chukchi Sea usually inhabited by walrus in more typical ice years was not surveyed because ice was not present.
	alaska.fws.gov /fisheries/mmm/walrus/nhistory.htm (2135 words)

	Alaskool - Many Tongues, Ancient Tales
		Siberian Yupik was spoken by the Eskimo along most of the east coast of the Chukchi Peninsula during the 19th century and perhaps also along its Arctic Ocean coast.
		It is proposed that the Eskimo languages on the Siberian side represent relatively minor westward movement back to and into the Chukchi Peninsula from Alaska, and that Sirenikski represents the oldest wave of that movement, Siberian Yupik the second, and Naukanski the latest.
		On the coast between Chukchi and Koryak is Kerek, formerly considered a dialect of Chukchi or of Koryak and now recognized as a separate language, but now also nearing extinction.
	www.alaskool.org /LANGUAGE/manytongues/ManyTongues.html (3421 words)

	Chukchi
		The Chukchi are the largest group of indigenous people in the Asian Arctic.
		Their lands were finally taken over by the Soviet regime, but the Chukchi kept control longer than any other indigenous people of the Arctic.
		Chukchi reindeer are less domesticated than those of other herder groups.
	www.athropolis.com /arctic-facts/fact-chukchi.htm (288 words)

	GeoNative - Koryak - Chukchi
		Koryak proper is quite close to Chukchi, and, in turn, a couple of dialects (Alutor or Nymylan and Kerek), are considered separate languages by some linguists.
		The Chukchis, relatives of the Koryaks, live in the extreme northeastern part of Siberia, in the area between the Chukchi and Bering Seas, in the Chukotka or Chukchi peninsula, and belong to the Chukchi Autonomous District of the Russian Federation (Magadan Region) and to the Lower Kolyma District of Yakutia-Sakha.
		The Chukchi assimilation process has gone very far: already in 1970 they were only 11% in their autonomous district.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/koriak.html (497 words)

	Siberia's Chukchi & Neighboring Peoples - from WorkingDogWeb.com
		Chukotka, including the Chukchi Peninsula, is region of Asia separated from Alaska at the Bering Strait.
		The Chukchi are both coastal hunters of sea mammals and interior reindeer breeders and herders.
		with photographs of the Chukchi of Northeast Siberia, and the Ainu, Itelmen and Nivkh of Kamchatka and the Lower Amur River region, with photos of sled dogs of the Itelmen
	www.workingdogweb.com /Chukchi.htm (1209 words)

	Into the Rising Sun
		The great Russian explorations of the 17th century that led to the discovery of Sakhalin Island, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the barren Chukchi Peninsula at the eastern end of Siberia, helped bring into focus the outlines of Asia's northeast coasts.
		Rounding the peninsula in early August, Vitus Bering became the second explorer to sail through the famous 55 mile-wide strait separating Siberia from the western extent of Alaska.
		The expedition reached the southeast coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1740, where Vitus Bering laid the foundation stones at Avacha Bay for the port of Petropavlovsk, named after the two ships that would carry his expedition west: the St.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C16/E1604.htm (3619 words)

	Jesup Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Yupik (Asiatic Eskimo) live along the eastern shore of the Chukchi Peninsula and in Alaska on Saint Lawrence Island.
		Yupik folklore speaks of armed encounters, usually provoked by the neighboring Chukchi whom the Yupik characterized as hot-tempered and grudge bearing in contrast to their own self-image as peaceful and good-humored.
		Despite their acrimonious history, Maritime Chukchi adapted Yupik subsistence techniques for fishing and hunting large sea mammals and Chukchi influenced Yupik social organization and material culture.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/Jesup/G24.html (436 words)

	Sea Kayaker - Chukchi Peninsula
		The wind was blowing and the water was all whitecaps and ice floes.
		Gennady explained that the residents of this town are mostly native Chukchis who subsist on what they catch from the sea.
		Once we rounded the easternmost point of the Chukchi Peninsula and entered the Bering Strait, the southwest headwind grew to 25 knots and five-foot seas rebounded off the cliffs.
	www.seakayakermag.com /1999/dec99/chukchi_01.htm (5027 words)

	ARCTIC VOICE No. 11
		Its principal mission was to explore northeastern Russia, including the Chukchi Peninsula, the islands and seas in the northern Pacific, and the northwestern American coastal lands.
		Billings was to chart the northern part of the Chukchi Peninsula (this was what Dmitry Laptev had failed to do) and to try to find a landmass north of Kolyma, the first evidence of which was traced back to the 17th century and which many viewed as a separate continent.
		An endeavour was made to chart the northern part of the Chukchi Peninsula from land, but it ended in failure.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /HistoryCulture/russianexplor.html (2086 words)

	Chukchi Peninsula — FactMonster.com
		The Chukchi language is of the Paleosiberian family (see
		The area was separated from the Magadan region in 1992 and put under the direct jurisdiction of Russia, the only autonomous area to be so constituted.
		Cape Dezhnev - Cape Dezhnev or East Cape,northeasternmost point of Asia, Russian Far East, on Chukchi Peninsula...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0812167.html (209 words)

	ExpeditionTrips.com - Research
		Specifically, at their closest points, (85 kilometers), the Chukchi Peninsula in far northeast Siberia and the Seward Peninsula on Alaska’s west coast.
		In the summer of 1987, Frolov, then 24, traveled north to the Chukchi Peninsula to learn how to make the traditional skin boat.
		"This is one of the only places left that is 'untouched', unexplored, probably in the whole world," says Sergey Frolov of the Chukchi Peninsula, at the topmost part of Russia’s 3,000-mile eastern coastline.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /research/russia-information-culture.asp (586 words)

	Listing of bowhead whale related documents resulting from research conducted and
		Albert, T. Assisting Native hunters (Eskimo and Chukchi) in Chukotka (Russian Far East) who are returning toward a traditional lifestyle that includes their continuing relationship with the gray whale and their re-establishing a relationship with the bowhead whale (1997-2000).
		Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in zooplankton of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
		Carbon isotope ratios in zooplankton of the Bering and Chukchi Seas as markers of aging and habitat usage for the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus).
	www.north-slope.org /nsb/Wildlife_publ_new.htm (12120 words)

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