Lebyazhya Bay

Coordinates: 54°57′N 136°49′E / 54.950°N 136.817°E / 54.950; 136.817

Lebyazhya Bay (Russian: Лебя́жья губа́) is a small bay that indents the south side of Feklistova Island, one of the Shantar Islands, in the western Sea of Okhotsk. Its entrance is 11.3 kilometers (7.0 mi) wide and it is 5.6 kilometers (3.5 mi) deep. There are three small bays at its head: Enegelma Road to the west, Soboleva to the north, and Rosseta to the east. A small island, Sukhotina, lies to its southeast. In the spring and summer it is host to a small nesting colony of thick-billed murre.[1] A number of streams of fresh water flow down the hills into the bay. Spring tides rise 6.5 meters (21 ft) while neaps rise 2.4 meters (7 ft 10 in).[2]

History

Between 1852 and 1874, American whaleships anchored in the bay—particularly Soboleva at its head—to stow down or boil oil, flense whales, and obtain wood and water or shelter from storms. They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor.[3][4] The ship Lexington, of Nantucket, reported sixteen other whaleships anchored in Feklistova Harbor, of which five were boiling oil; seven more were seen coming in.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Kondratyev, A. Y., Litvinenko, N. M., Shibaev, Y. V., Vyatkin, P. S., & Kondratyeva, L. F. (2000). "The breeding seabirds of the Russian Far East". Seabirds of the Russian Far East, 37-81.
  2. ↑ United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office.
  3. ↑ Arctic, of Fairhaven, September 20, 1852. In Gelett, C. W. (1917). A life on the ocean: Autobiography of Captain Charles Wetherby Gelett. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.
  4. ↑ Harrison, of New Bedford, August 30–September 1, September 4–11, 1853, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, August 14–19, 1859, NWC; Java, of New Bedford, September 28–October 5, 1865, September 23–25, 1866, NWC; Arnolda, of New Bedford, September 24–26, October 4–6, 14–17, 1874, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
  5. ↑ Lexington, of Nantucket, September 1, 1855, Nantucket Historical Association.


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