Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) 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 ...
in
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 ...
. With an area of , it is the second largest in the archipelago.
Geography
Feklistova is west to east and north to south.
[United States. (1918). ''Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen''. Washington: Hydrographic Office.] It lies about west of
Bolshoy Shantar Island
Bolshoy Shantar ( rus, Большо́й Шантар, r=Bol'shoy Shantar, Big Shantar, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj ʂɐnˈtar) is the main island of the Shantar Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia; its area is and it measures about . It has a large bracki ...
, the main island in the group. Feklistov Island is covered with taiga forest and has a lake on its northern shore separated from the sea by a spit of land.
Administratively this island belongs to the
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District ...
of the
Russian Federation.
This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov
metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of
placers which include minerals like "blacksand
platinum".
The "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" is one of the major metallogenic belts of Northeast Asia. It is assumed that it formed by an oblique subduction of the oceanic crust of the Mongol-Okhotsk paleoocean under the southern margin of the Siberian continent.
History
Between 1852 and 1889,
American
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* 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 off Feklistova Island.
[''Arctic'', of Fairhaven, Sep. 20, 1852. In Gelett, C. W. (1917). ''A life on the ocean: Autobiography of Captain Charles Wetherby Gelett''. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.] They also anchored in
Lebyazhya Bay
Lebyazhya Bay (russian: Лебя́жья губа́) is a small bay that indents the south side of Feklistova Island, one of the Shantar Islands, in the western Sea of Okhotsk. Its entrance is wide and it is deep. There are three small bays at i ...
on the south side of the island to stow down or boil oil,
flense whales, and obtain wood and water or shelter from storms. They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor. As many as forty-two ships could be anchored in Lebyazhya Bay at one time.
[''Nimrod'', of New Bedford, Sep. 19, 1859, KWM.]
References
External links
Satellite view for Ostrov FeklistovaPictures
Shantar Islands
Islands of the Sea of Okhotsk
Islands of the Russian Far East
Islands of Khabarovsk Krai
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