Sakharnaya Golova (russian: Острова Сивучьи Камни, ''Ostrov Sakharnaya Golova'', meaning "

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Island") is a small island in the northwestern

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 part of the Shantar Islands National Park.

Geography

Sakharnaya Golova is 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 ...

. It has an elevation of 171 m and lies to the west of

Feklistova Island Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) is one of the Shantar Islands in Sea of Okhotsk. With an area of , it is the second largest in the archipelago. Geography Feklistova is west to east and nort ...

History

The island was frequented by

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s hunting

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 between 1857 and 1889.''Mary Frazier'', of New Bedford, June 21, 1857, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); ''Sea Breeze'', of New Bedford, Sep. 11, 1866, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS); ''Northern Light'', of New Bedford, Sep. 19-20, 1874, ODHS; ''Mary and Helen II'', of San Francisco, Aug. 9, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum; ''E. F. Herriman'', of San Francisco, August 31, September 2, September 16-17, 1889, GBWL #761.

References

{{Sea of Okhotsk Islands Shantar Islands