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- In recognition of its cultural and historical significance, Whale Bone Alley, along with the surrounding area, earned a prestigious designation in 2010.
- Administratively Yttygran Island belongs to Providensky District, part the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. Whale Bone Alley.
- Discover Whale Bone Alley in Russia: Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.
- Archeologists believe that the Whale Bone Alley was constructed by a predetermined plan, as it forms a regular geometrical pattern.
- Therefore, many historians concluded that Whale Bone Alley was simply an area where the Yupik slaughtered, stored, and traded whale meat.
- Along the northern shore of the remote Siberian island of Yttygran, in the Bering Sea, is an area recognized as the “Whale Bone Alley.
- These whales have provided the raw materials which have made this island famous. Yttygran Island, Whale Bone Alley, and the whales are all interlinked.
- The leading theory is that Whale Bone Alley was once a shrine and sacred meeting place created by the local Inuits, known as the Yupik, who hunted whales for food.
- Dotted at regular intervals along Whale Bone Alley are meat storage pits which, when discovered still contained whale meat.
- However the mysterious Whale Bone Alley served the tribes in the island and beyond, it's still a compelling place to visit 600 years later.
