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.- Bay
- …was formerly known as “Plover Bay”
- Description: bay in Gulf of Anadyr, Bering Sea, Russia
- Also known as“Bukhta Providence”“Providenii͡a Bay”“Provideniya Bay”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Provideniya.
Providence Bay
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Latitude
64.40211° or 64° 24′ 8″ north
Longitude
-173.31223° or 173° 18′ 44″ west
Open location code
92P8CM2Q+R4
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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”
- Italian: “Baia Providenija”
- Latvian: “Provideņijas līcis”
- Persian: “خلیج پروویدنس”
- Russian: “Бухта Провидения”
- Ukrainian: “Бухта Провидіння”
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Localities in the Area
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Chukotka: Highlights
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