page_title: Gambell, Alaska
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Gambell, Alaska / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Waves coming ashore on the gravel west beach of Gambell, Alaska, facing south.
context_page_description: Gambell is a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located on St. Lawrence Island, it had a population of 681 at the 2010 census, up from 649 in 2000.
context_section_description: Gambell is located on the northwest cape of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 325 km (202 mi) southwest of Nome. It is 58 km (36 mi) from the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East.
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.4 square miles (79 km²), of which, 10.9 square miles (28 km²) of it is land and 19.5 square miles (51 km²) of it (64.10%) is water.
  The town is served by Gambell Airport.
caption: West beach of Gambell, Alaska, facing south.
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