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ANADYR, (1)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 907 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANADYR, (1) a gulf, and (2) a See also:river, in the extreme N.E. of See also:Siberia, in the Maritime See also:Province. The gulf extends from Cape See also:Chukchi on the See also:north to Cape Navarin on the See also:south, forming See also:part of the See also:Bering See also:Sea. The river, taking its rise in the Stanovoi mountains as the Ivashki or Ivachno, about 67° N. See also:lat. and 173° See also:ANAESTHESIA 907 E. See also:long., flows through the Chukchi See also:country, at first south-See also:west and then See also:east, and enters the Gulf of Anadyr after a course of about 500 M. The country through which it passes is thinly populated, barren and desolate. For nine months of the See also:year the ground is covered with See also:snow. See also:Reindeer, upon which the in-habitants subsist, are found in considerable See also:numbers.

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