Chelyuskin

American

[chel-yoos-kin, chyi-lyoos-kyin] / tʃɛlˈyʊs kɪn, tʃyɪˈlyus kyɪn /

noun

Cape, a cape in the Russian Federation in Asia: the northernmost point of the Asia mainland.

Chelyuskin British

/ tʃɪˈljuskin /

noun

a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia

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In 1742 Lieutenant Chelyuskin reached the northernmost cape, which bears his name, by a sledge journey.

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Again resuming the voyage, they, on the evening of the 19th, anchored in a bay round Cape Chelyuskin, the most northerly point of the Asiatic continent.

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To the east of Cape Chelyuskin the Russians encountered greater difficulties.

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He sailed from the mouth of the Lena to the mouth of the Olonek, where he wintered, and on the 1st of September 1736 he got as far as 77� 29′ N., within 5 m. of Cape Chelyuskin.

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On September 10 the Fram had made her way through the ice-encumbered sea as far as Cape Chelyuskin, the most northerly point of Europe.

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