Cape Vankarem
мыс Ванкарем | |
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 View of Cape Vankarem | |
  Cape Vankarem | |
| Coordinates: 67°50′55″N 175°48′24″W / 67.84861°N 175.80667°W | |
| Location | Chukotka,  Russia |
| Offshore water bodies | Chukchi Sea |
Cape Vankarem is a cape in the Chukchi Sea on the northern coast of Chukotka between Cape Schmidt to the west and Kolyuchinskaya Bay to the east. It projects from a sandspit across the mouth of a lagoon into which flows the Vankarem River. At the mouth of the lagoon is the village of Vankarem, a Chukchi settlement.
The area around cape Vankarem is bounded by narrow beach ridges and swales with numerous inlets and coastal lagoons.