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Uelen

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Uelen

 

a cape on the coast of the southeastern Chukchi Sea, to the west of Dezhnev Cape. Cape Uelen ends in a rocky precipice about 100 m high. To the west of the cape is a lagoon formed by a spit, on which is the village of Uelen, Chukchi Autonomous Okrug (formerly Chukchi National Okrug), Magadan Oblast, RSFSR. Uelen is the site of a polar station.

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Uelen, located just south of the Arctic Circle in the far east of Russia, registered the largest increase for 2018 - deviating by 5.1 degrees Celsius above the control period norm.
On 24, 25, and 27 December temperatures above the previous daily maximum were recorded at Mys Uelen, and the December mean temperature there exceeded -5[degrees]C for the first time on record.
Kremer's next posting was in the Far East--the station at Uelen on the Chukchi Sea very close to Mys Dezhnev [Cape Dezhnev] on the west side of the Bering Strait.
The results confirmed an August 1948 SAC Air Intelligence Briefing that downgraded the threat of airfields at Uelen, Bukhta Providenya, and Anadyr on the Chukotski Peninsula and bases in the Petropavlovsk-Northern Kuriles (much farther south):
For despite Mletkins efforts to preserve the old ways upon his return to Uelen, the empire builders of the nascent Soviet Union prove too determined, too powerful to withstand.
There, Martin will start biking until he reaches Uelen, Asia's most easterly settlement in Russia.
(21.) These ships included Igarka, Arktikii, Mikoyan, Maxim Gorkii, Uelen, Perekop, Maikop, V.
It is tantalizing, that small stretch of water between Uelen, Siberia, and Wales, Alaska, with the two Diomede Islands between them, all seemingly just waiting to be connected.
The extreme North-East Asian region was the target of investigations in 1977 (Bering Island, Provideniya), in 1979 (Anadyr, Uelen, Ratmanov Island), and 1981 (Cape Schmidt, Nutepelmen).
The Ice Challenger vehicle would also face the additional challenge of having to outrun a moving ice flow, or risk drifting past the Uelen Peninsula and into the Arctic Ocean.
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