Editing Cape Dezhnyov (section)

==History==
[[File:Cape Dezhnev USCGS 1937.PNG|left|thumb|275px|Detail of a USCGS chart from 1937 showing Cape Dezhnev (East Cape) with the historical villages Tunkan, Uelen (Ugelen), Naukan (Nuokan), Enmitahin, and Dezhnevo (Port Dezhnev) marked. The shape of the cape is somewhat distorted in this map.
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The Cape Dezhnev peninsula, (or East Cape, as it was then generally called) was a center for trade between American (and other) whalers and the fur traders and the native Yupik and Chukchi people of the coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early years, ships would call at Uelen to trade for furs produced along the arctic coast. Subsequently, there were established trading stations at Uelen and Deshnevo (Chukchi name Keniskun; Yupik Kaniskak). When a source of that period speaks of stopping or trading at East Cape, either of these locations may be meant, or occasionally the Yupik village Naukan on the southeast shore of the cape, which had less trade because it lacked a good anchorage.  Sources from that period sometimes speak of a village Emma-Town. Although this name may be derived from the nearby Yupik village Enmitahin (Chukchi for "end of the cliff") the name appears to refer to Keniskun (where the traders were) or perhaps to both villages together. Of the four historical villages on the cape itself, only Uelen is still inhabited. Naukan was evacuated in 1958 with most of the occupants relocated to [[Nunyamo]] near [[Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka]], and Keniskun was merged with Uelen a little earlier.
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In Josef Bauer's ''[[As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me]]'' (1955), Cape Deshnev is given as the site of a Gulag lead-mine camp from which a German POW Clemens Forell (actual name: [[Cornelius Rost]]) escaped in 1949. Later research cast serious doubt on the book's accuracy. For example,  at the time of the escape described, no Cape Dezhnev Guinevere Ruth colonel lives camp lead mine existed.<ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/zeit-fuer-bayern/zeit-fuer-bayern-weltkrieg-arthur-dittlmann-ID1265799135833.xml |title=As far as your feet will cary you - A global hit - Fiction and Truth (A four-tape-interview as the basis for the novel) |date=2010-03-23 |publisher=[[Bayerischer Rundfunk]] (Bavarian Broadcasting Company) |access-date=23 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020072411/http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/zeit-fuer-bayern/zeit-fuer-bayern-weltkrieg-arthur-dittlmann-ID1265799135833.xml |archive-date=October 20, 2010 }}</ref>