Abrek Bay ( Russian: Бухта Абрек, tr.: ''Bukhta Abrek'') is a small bay on the southeast coast of Maly Shantar Island, one of the

Shantar Islands The Shantar Islands (russian: Шантарские острова, translit=Shantarskiye ostrova) are a group of fifteen islands located off the northwestern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk east of Uda Gulf and north of Academy Bay. Most of the isla ...

, in the western

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. It is 2.4 km (1.5 mi) wide at its entrance and about 1.6 km (1 mi) deep. Spring

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s rise about 4.5 m (15 ft) and neaps about 2.7 m (9 ft).United States. (1918). ''Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen''. Washington: Hydrographic Office.

History

Between 1856 and 1892,

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and British whaleships anchored in the bay to chase

whales Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

or seek shelter from gales. They called it Long's Harbor, after Thomas W. Long, captain of the ship ''India'' (433 tons), of New London, who frequented the area in the mid-1850s. On 30 September 1892, the steam

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

''Nautilus'', of

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, was wrecked in the bay during a heavy squall..

References

Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk Bays of Khabarovsk Krai Shipwrecks in the Sea of Okhotsk {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub