The Saint Lawrence Bay (Russian: Залив Лаврентия; Zaliv Lavrentiya) is a bay in the Bering Sea on the eastern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Federation.
This bay is located very close to the Bering Strait, which lies only a few km to the NE.
On the southern shore of the bay at Cape Hargilah is the village of Port Lawrence.
British Captain James Cook landed for a few hours in St. Lawrence Bay and met some of the local Chukchi people in August 1778, but he didn't linger in the bay.
[2] This bay was first surveyed by Russian mariner Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke in 1828.