What is Chukchi Sea?
{{redlinks|date=June 2012}} [[Image:Chukchi Sea.png|thumb|right|300px|Map of the Chukchi Sea.]] [[Image:Chukchi Sea.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Spring breakup of sea ice on the Chukchi Sea.]] '''Chukchi Sea''' is a [[marginal sea]] of the [[Arctic Ocean]]. It is bounded on the west by the [[De Long Strait]], off [[Wrangel Island]], and in the east by [[Point Barrow]], [[Alaska]], beyond which is the [[Beaufort Sea]]. The [[Bering Strait]] forms its southernmost limit and connects it to the [[Bering Sea]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The main port on the Chukchi Sea is [[Uelen]] in Russia. The [[International Date Line]] crosses the Chukchi Sea. It is moved east to avoid [[Wrangel Island]] as well as the [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]] on the Russian mainland. The sea has an area of about 595,000&nbsp;km² (230,000&nbsp;mi²). It can only be travelled about four months of the year. The Chukchi Sea has very few islands compared to other seas of the Arctic. [[Wrangel Island]] is at the northwestern limit of the sea, [[Herald Island (Arctic)|Herald Island]] is near its northern limit, and a few small islands are along the [[Siberia]]n and [[Alaska]]n coasts. The sea is named after the [[Chukchi people]]. The live on its shores and on the [[Chukotka Peninsula]]. The Chukchi worked at fishing, whaling and the hunting of [[walrus]] in this cold sea. In [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug|Siberia]] places along the coast are: [[Cape Billings]], [[Mys Shmidta|Cape Schmidt]], [[Amguyema River]], [[Cape Vankarem]], the large [[Kolyuchinskaya Bay]], [[Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon]], [[Cape Serdtse-Kamen]], [[Enurmino]], [[Chegitun River]], [[Inchoun]], [[Uelen]] and [[Cape Dezhnev]]. In [[Alaska]], the rivers flowing into the Chukchi Sea are the [[Kivalina River|Kivalina]], the [[Kobuk River|Kobuk]], the [[Kokolik River|Kokolik]], the [[Kukpowruk River|Kukpowruk]], the [[Kukpuk River|Kukpuk]], the [[Noatak River|Noatak]], the [[Utukok River|Utukok]], the [[Pitmegea River|Pitmegea]], and the [[Wulik River|Wulik]], among others. The most importa