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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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In September the ice pack began fingering the Chelyuskin.

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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.

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

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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

Chelyuskin again reported that the whole bay and the sea in the offing were, as far as the eye could reach, covered with unbroken ice This induced Laptev to turn.

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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