Luzhin Bay (russian: Бухта Лужина, ''Bukhta Luzhina'') is a bay in Magadan Oblast,

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. It is named after Russian cartographer

Fyodor Luzhin Fyodor Fyodorovich Luzhin ( Russian: ''Федор Федорович Лужин'') (died 1727) was a Russian geodesist and cartographer. Fyodor Luzhin was first a student at the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow and then ...

Geography

Luzhin Bay is a small, circular bay with high, rocky shores. It lies on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and is separated from the larger Shelting Bay to the east by the Onara Peninsula. It is entered between Capes Moskvitin to the east and Izmaylov to the west. It has not been surveyed.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). ''Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia''. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.

History

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s cruised for bowhead whales in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s. They called it Horseshoe Bay. They also anchored in the bay to get

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and water. In 1860, the

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''Alice Frazier'' (406 tons), of

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, attempted to winter in the bay but

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in December parted her chain and then drove her out to sea, forcing the men to winter with the

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ns.''The Friend'', Honolulu, November 18, 1861, Vol. 18, No 11, p. 84.

References

Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk Bays of Magadan Oblast Pacific Coast of Russia Shipwrecks in the Sea of Okhotsk {{MagadanOblast-geo-stub