Cruises from Yanrakynnot
Yanrakynnot is located on Yttygran Island off the rugged shoreline of Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula. It is situated on the west side of Bering Strait, 21 km over the water from Alaska and 225 km below the Arctic Circle. An archaeological site, Whale Bone Alley with its huge 500-year-old bones of bowhead whales runs along the shore.
Read moreThe location is thought to have been used, around 1300, as a possible ceremonial site for either a men's secret society associated with early whaling activities; or perhaps as a feasting site for the region.
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