Naukan Multi-Layered Settlement
Ekven Burial Ground and Settlement
Nunak Historical and Cultural Complex
The Heritage of Chukotka Arctic Marine Hunters cultural heritage site, including Naukan Multi-Layered Settlement, Ekven Burial Ground and Settlement and Nunak Historical and Cultural Complex, is located south and southeast from Dezhnevsky massif on the shores of the Bering Strait in the Chukotka district of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
This area situated to the west and to the east from Cape Pevek, an extreme point of Eurasia. The smallest width of the Bering Strait (85 km) in this area contributed to the development of contacts between the populations of Eurasia and North America since Prehistory. This factor also had a significant impact on the emergence of a unique culture of marine mammal hunters encompassing Chukotka and Alaska.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
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