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 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, 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 of the
Russian Federation
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.
This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov
metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of
placers which include minerals like "blacksand
platinum
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Pla ...
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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 whaleship
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Japa ...
s cruised for
bowhead whales 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 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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