Providence Bay
Providence Bay is a fjord in the southern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of northeastern Siberia. It was a popular rendezvous, wintering spot, and provisioning spot for whalers and traders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Gulf of Anadyr, Bering Sea, Russia
- Also known as: “Bukhta Providence”, “Providenii͡a Bay”, and “Provideniya Bay”
- Historically known as: “Plover Bay”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Provideniya.
Provideniya
Photo: Chakat Rimm, Public domain.
Provideniya is an urban locality and the administrative center of Providensky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Komsomolskaya Bay in the northeastern part of the autonomous okrug, across the Bering Strait from Alaska, and very close to the International Date Line.
Providence Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Chukotka, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Providence Bay” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Provideniya buxtası”
- Belarusian: “Бухта Правідзення”
- Cebuano: “Bukhta Provideniya”
- Chinese: “普罗维杰尼亚湾”
- Chinese: “普羅維傑尼亞灣”
- Finnish: “Providenijanlahti”
- French: “Baie de la Providence”
- French: “baie de Providenia”
- French: “Baie de Providenia”
- Italian: “Baia Providenija”
- Latvian: “Provideņijas līcis”
- Russian: “Бухта Провидения”
- Ukrainian: “Бухта Провидіння”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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