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Chelyuskin

American  
[chel-yoos-kin, chyi-lyoos-kyin] / tʃɛlˈjʊs kɪn, tʃjɪˈljus kjɪn /

noun

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


Chelyuskin British  
/ tʃɪˈljuskin /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professor Schmidt and his men began chopping a path in the ice, nudging the Chelyuskin through it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Chelyuskin was within 150 mi. of the Bering Strait, the ice pack closed its fist, began its inexorable squeeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

The land between the Tajmur and Cape Chelyuskin was mapped by means of sledge journeys along the coast by mate Chelyuskin in the year 1742.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882

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