Amakhton Bay (
Russian: Амахтонский залив; ''Zaliv Amakhtonsky'') is a small bay on the north coast of the
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 ...
in
Magadan Oblast
Magadan Oblast ( rus, Магаданская область, r=Magadanskaya oblast, p=məgɐˈdanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Far East region of the country, and is adminis ...
. It forms the northwestern portion of
Taui Bay. The bay is entered between the mouth of the Arman River to the northeast and Cape Amakhton to the southwest. It is 48.3 km (about 30 mi) wide.
Shelikan lies on the south side of the bay.
Tidal currents can reach 2 to 2.5
knots
A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines.
Knot may also refer to:
Places
* Knot, Nancowry, a village in India
Archaeology
* Knot of Isis (tyet), symbol of welfare/life.
* Minoan snake goddess figurines#Sacral knot
Arts, entertainme ...
in the bay.
[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). ''Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia''. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.]
History
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
whaleships cruised for
bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (''Balaena mysticetus'') is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the only living representative of the genus ''Balaena''. They are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and subarctic waters, ...
s in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s. They also traded with the
native
Native may refer to:
People
* Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth
* Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
** Native Americans (disambiguation)
In arts and entert ...
settlements for
milk and
fish.
[''Betsey Williams'', of Stonington, Sep. 14, 1853, Nicholson Whaling Collection; ''Florida'', of Fairhaven, July 6, 1860. In Williams, H. (1964). ''One whaling family''. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.]
References
Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk
Bays of Magadan Oblast
Pacific Coast of Russia
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