Cape Ukurunru
Cape Ukurunru (Russian: Mys Ukurunru) is a cape in the western Sea of Okhotsk. It has sheer cliffs that are grayish-brown in color. It forms the western point to the entrance of Ulban Bay.[1]
History
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the cape between 1855 and 1885.[2] They called it Mercury or Washington Head, the former name after the ship Mercury (340 tons), of New Bedford, which visited the area during her voyage of 1852-1855, and the latter name after the ship Washington (340 tons), of Sag Harbor, which was stove by ice and run ashore near the cape in 1855.[3][4]
References
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
- ^ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 8, 1855, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 14, 1858, NWC; Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, July 14-15, 1874, George Blunt White Library; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum.
- ^ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 9, 1855, NWC.
- ^ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
53°58′N 137°51′E / 53.967°N 137.850°E]
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