Shelagsky Cape - the northernmost point of Chukotka.

 cape (geography), peninsula, interesting place, invisible

Cape to S.-V. Asia, at the entrance to the lip Chaunskuyu East Siberian Sea. Located under the 70 ° 06 'with. Rd. and 170 ° 36 'to. e. Sh.M. rock acts at sea for 9 kilometers.
Opened in 1648, explorers S. Dezhnevym and named him head first Holy Nose in 1700, the merchant said Taras Staduhin his cape as the Great Louisiana. Cape Shelagsky name first appears on the map FP Wrangel, 1841, Formation of ethnonym Shelagh, who believe the name of one of the families Yukagirs, Chuvans tribe, who lived in this place.

Not far from Cape Shelagskogo is the only monument of polar expeditions gulagovskih 1932-1934 years: from boiled thick strips rickety iron cross, visible on the far shore of the desert. At zarzhavevshey plate can distinguish the words: «GolikovaPolina Andreyevna rod. 1910 - skonch. 21/VII 1933 ». Random poputchitsa Kolyma prison, unaware of the record in these wild edges, «heroic work sovetskihlyudey turned into a blossoming garden of socialism» ...
www.ihst.ru / dmdocuments / Vragi_Naroda.pdf

August 10, 1959 at Cape Shelagsky an airplane crash Li-2. When flying in the PMU on a rocky cape at the entrance to the Chaunskuyu lip at its east coast flight into a powerful top-down flow of air and collided with a rock. Crew to fly in order to ice reconnaissance. Killed 5 people.

On the cape is a beacon Shelagsky West, north of its crumbling old parking lot, south Zemlyanka described by Oleg Kuvaeva in "Diary of coastal navigation. maximov.pevek.ru / korsina / kuvaev.htm
In the southern part of the peninsula, apart from the ruins of the village, the fishermen is a classic house with a stone oven and a sauna. To the north of it over the hot stone is available for nonresidential Misty Station - a monument to the era Glavsevmorputi. It is situated on a rock, has no roads, the provision was carried out by sea. The place is so remote that the station has not yet been looted.
Near it is the northernmost point of Chukotka is not marked.