Mys Shmidta is an urban locality in Iultinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located about 5 kilometers southeast of the cape of the same name on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, south of Wrangel Island, about 650 kilometers from Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug. The cape, but not the settlement, was formerly k…Mys Shmidta is an urban locality in Iultinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located about 5 kilometers southeast of the cape of the same name on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, south of Wrangel Island, about 650 kilometers from Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug. The cape, but not the settlement, was formerly known as North Cape. Cape Billings is located to the west of it and Cape Vankarem is to the east. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 492; down from 705 recorded in the 2002 Census.
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