Providence Bay (Russian: Бу́хта Провиде́ния, Bukhta Provideniya[1]) 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. Emma Harbor (now Komsomolskaya Bay) is a large sheltered bay in the eastern shore of Providence Bay. Provideniya and Ureliki settlements and Provideniya Bay Airport stand on the Komsomolskaya Bay. Plover Bay in English sources sometimes refers specifically to the anchorage behind Napkum Spit within Providence Bay (also called Port Providence) but was commonly used as a synonym for Providence Bay; Russian 19th century sources used the term for an anchorage within Providence Bay.[2]
Plover Bay takes its name from HMS Plover, a British ship which overwintered in Emma Harbor in 1848–1849. HMS Plover with captain Thomas E. L. Moore left Plymouth in January 1848 for the Bering Sea to find the lost Franklin Expedition. On October 17, 1848, Moore anchored his ship in a safe harbor; he is given credit for the name Providence Bay and for the first successful wintering of a ship in Bering Sea region.[3] Lieutenant William Hulme Hooper of the Plover attributes the name Port Emma (or Emma's Harbor) to Captain Moore but provides no explanation of the choice of name.[4]
^Transliteration as in Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary (3rd edition 1997) ISBN 0-87779-546-0, ISBN 978-0-87779-546-9 p. 959
ProvidenceBay (Russian: Бу́хта Провиде́ния, Bukhta Provideniya) is a fjord in the southern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of northeastern Siberia. It...
Providence is Rhode Island's capital and largest city and sits at the northernmost arm of the bay. Many of Providence's suburbs are also on the bay,...
New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. On the eastern side of the island is the national...
Gibraltar, Grimsthorpe, Long Bay, Monument Corner, Old Spring Bay, Perivale, ProvidenceBay, Sandfield and Spring Bay. Ontario has had a few historical...
The Providence River is a tidal river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 8 miles (13 km). There are no dams along the river's length...
land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay for thousands of years before...
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Komsomolskaya Bay (a part of ProvidenceBay) in the northeastern part of the autonomous okrug, across the...
expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he termed...
Station stop at Back Bay, as does the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited. Four MBTA Commuter Rail routes – the Providence/Stoughton Line, Franklin/Foxboro...
The East Bay Bike Path is a 14.5-mile (23.3 km) paved rail trail in Rhode Island. The path originates in Providence and India Point Park, crosses the Seekonk...
The Providence metropolitan area (Providence MSA) is a region extending into eight counties in two states. Its core is in the states of Rhode Island and...
The Eturerveyem River flows into Kolyuchin Bay on the peninsula. Arctic Alaska-Chukotka terrane ProvidenceBay Chukotka sled-dog "Chukchi Peninsula". Encyclopedia...
then north-east along the shore, exploring Karaginsky Gulf, Kresta Bay, ProvidenceBay, Gulf of Anadyr, Cape Chukotsky, and St. Lawrence Island. The expedition...
Providence station is a railroad station in Providence, Rhode Island, served by Amtrak and MBTA Commuter Rail. The station has four tracks and two island...
celebrations in August each year. Fort Providence was founded in the 1860s as a Catholic mission site. By 1868, the Hudson's Bay Company, which previously has...
September 1879. p. 3. "Carbis Bay". The Cornishman. No. 96. 13 May 1880. p. 2. "Wheal Providence, Providence Mines, Carbis Bay, Lelant, St Ives District,...
Mindemoya River, which exits the lake on the south side and flows into ProvidenceBay. A concrete public boat launch is located along Ketchankookem Trail...
South Baymouth, and ProvidenceBay. Throughout the 1927 season, Tackaberry operated the M.S. Alice on the run to ProvidenceBay. He was, however, unsatisfied...
James Cook made an exploration of Cape North (now Cape Schmidt) and ProvidenceBay. Anxious that other European powers would occupy the area, Tsaritsa...
Old Fort Bay (also Old Fort Bay Club) is a private gated community, club, and former British colonial fort located in northwestern New Providence Island...
Old Fort Providence, located near the mouth of Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada, was one of the first fur trading outposts on Great Slave...
Global Information
