Telan Island, also Ostrov Telan, is an island in 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 ...

, roughly 1 mile south-southwest of

Mys Vnutrenniy MYS or Mys could refer to: Places * Mys, Perm Krai, a village in Russia * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code MYS * Mysore Railway Station, Karnataka, India; Indian Railways station code MYS * Mystic (Amtrak station), Connecticut, United S ...

. It is described as "a very conspicuous island resembling a castle."

Geography

The island is located at the southern end of the Taygonos Peninsula, which separates the

Gizhigin Bay Gizhigin Bay (russian: Гижигинская губа, ''Gizhiginskaya Guba'') is a wide bay northwest of Kamchatka, Russia. It is the northwestern arm of Shelikhov Bay in the northeast corner of the Sea of Okhotsk. The settlements of Evensk and ...

from the

Penzhina Bay Penzhina Bay (russian: Пе́нжинская губа́, ''Penzhinskaya guba'') is a long and narrow bay off the northwestern coast of Kamchatka, Russia. Geography Penzhina Bay is the upper right arm of Shelikhov Bay in the northeastern corner o ...

. It is roughly triangular in shape and has a maximum length of 1.7 km; it is separated from the continental shore by a 0.5 km wide sound. Administratively Telan Island is part of the

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 ...

.Ostrov Telan / Magadanskaya Oblast'
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References

Islands of the Sea of Okhotsk Islands of the Russian Far East Islands of Magadan Oblast Uninhabited islands of Russia {{Russia-geo-stub