Whale alley Photo: Whale alley

Whale alley is an archaeological structure, which is one of the most famous attractions of Chukotka. Mysterious and enigmatic structure, which until recently almost no one else knew, is located to the North-East of Providence Bay, in the Bering Strait on the island Ittigen. The alley runs along the shores of the island 500 m.

It is assumed that the alley was created in XIV century, but it is possible that it was created much earlier. Whale alley was found in 1976 by a group of researchers of the Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences headed by M. Members. One of the participants of this expedition wrote that Whale alley is the only example of eskimo culture, which lost all the historical information.

Whale alley is a structure consisting of two rows of large bones of bowhead whales, dug into the ground near the shore. Near to the shore composed of a number of skulls of whales that rise from the ground to 1, 5 m, and in width up to 2 m. They are arranged by groups, each of which has 2-4 of the skull. Parallel to the second row is formed by huge pillars of the jaw bone, with a diameter of about 0, 5 m and 5 m in height To create avenues were used remains 50-60 adult whales.

Between the rows of the jaw bones and skulls is about 150 meat Yam storage for food. Meat holes is artificially created stone structures laid out in the form of rings. Then at the end of the building on the slope of a hill can be seen built a 50-metre stone road leading to smooth and round the Playground, surrounded by boulders. In the middle of the grounds is a large flat boulder, near which is built of small pebbles, and filled with ashes of the hearth. Obviously, this place was the Central sanctuary, where he was the General rites and rituals of village representatives, in ancient times lived on the Southeast coast of the Chukotka Peninsula.

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