Mamga Bay (russian: Бухта Мамга, ''Bukhta Mamga'') is a bay in the

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of Khabarovsk Krai,

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s are frequently seen in the bay.Solovyev, B. A., Shpak, O. V., Glazov, D. M., Rozhnov, V. V., & D. M. Kuznetsova. (2015). "Summer distribution of beluga whales (''Delphinapterus leucas'') in the Sea of Okhotsk". ''Russian J. Theriol.'' 14 (2): 201-215.

Geography

Mamga Bay is a small bay located on the northwestern side of

Tugur Bay Tugur may refer to: * Tugur (river), a river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East. * Tugur Bay, a Bay in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East. * Tugur (Khabarovsk Krai), a village in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East. *Tukur Tukur ( fa, توكور, al ...

. It lies in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk. The bay is open to the south and a small river, the Mamga, flows into it from the west.

History

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schooners wintered in Mamga Bay from 1856 to 1862. They called it Caroline Harbor, after the schooner ''Caroline'' (106 tonsThrum, T. G. (1909). ''Hawaiian almanac and annual for 1910''. Honolulu, Black & Auld, Printers.), which was the first to winter there in 1856–1857. The four crew left with her all died of

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s, which sent boat crews ahead in the early summer with provisions to cruise for bowhead whales with the schooners before the ships were able to work their way through the ice to Tugur Bay. In the summer of 1862 the

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(RAC) established a whaling station on the tip of the peninsula that forms the eastern side of the bay. Under the command of a Captain Elfsberg of the Imperial Navy, the two schooners ''Ayan'' and ''Caroline'' obtained 2,700 bbls of

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and 31,000 lbs of whalebone between 1863 and 1865. In 1865 the station and one of the schooners, the ''Caroline'', were sold to Otto Wilhelm Lindholm, who operated another station at the head of Tugur Bay. With the ''Caroline'' and another schooner, the ''Hannah Rice'' (160 tons), purchased the following year, Lindholm cruised for bowhead whales in Tugur Bay and in adjacent bays and gulfs.Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). ''Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm''. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing. Whales were towed to the station, where they were flensed on the beach and their blubber rendered into oil at a tryworks on the point. A chartered vessel from Nikolayevsk took aboard the oil and bone at the end of the season to either

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. Lindholm and his men wintered in the houses abandoned by the RAC, while the schooners were hauled up onto the riverbank at the mouth of the Mamga River to protect them from being damaged by the ice. In 1870 and 1871 he took down two of the houses on the point and loaded them onto one of his schooners and sailed to

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for the winter, leaving subordinates in command of the station. Lindholm last mentioned using the station for whaling in 1876, when he sent his steam-brig ''Sibir'' to pick up the catch there, but it was visited by the ''Sibir'' again in 1879 and 1883.

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s visited Mamga to sell goods and receive repairs from ice damage.''Java'', of New Bedford, June 30-July 1, July 10, Sep. 15-16, 1866, KWM.

References

{{reflist Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk Bays of Khabarovsk Krai Whaling stations