Feklistova
Остров Феклистова
Island
Map of the Shantar Islands.
Map of the Shantar Islands.
Feklistova is located in Khabarovsk Krai
Feklistova
Feklistova
Coordinates: 55°0′N 136°57′E / 55.000°N 136.950°E / 55.000; 136.950
CountryRussian Federation
Federal subjectFar Eastern Federal District
KraiKhabarovsk Krai
Area
 • Total372 km2 (144 sq mi)
Elevation
415 m (1,362 ft)

Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) is one of the Shantar Islands in Sea of Okhotsk. With an area of 372 square kilometres (144 square miles), it is the second largest in the archipelago.[1]

Geography

Feklistova is 24 kilometres (15 miles) west to east and 19.3 km (12 mi) north to south.[2] It lies about 20 kilometres (12+1⁄2 miles) west of Bolshoy Shantar Island, the main island in the group. Feklistov Island is covered with taiga forest and has a 3-kilometre-long (2-mile) lake on its northern shore separated from the sea by a spit of land.[3]

Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.

This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of placers [4] which include minerals like "blacksand platinum".[5] 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 whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Feklistova Island.[6][7] They also anchored in Lebyazhya Bay on the south side of the island to stow down[8] or boil oil,[9] flense whales,[10] and obtain wood and water[11] or shelter from storms.[12] They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor.[13] As many as forty-two ships could be anchored in Lebyazhya Bay at one time.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Russia Guide - Location". Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  2. ^ United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office.
  3. ^ GoogleEarth
  4. ^ Patyk-Kara, N. G. (2005). "Evolution of Placer Formation in Shelf Regions of Russia". Lithology and Mineral Resources. 40 (5): 389–400. doi:10.1007/s10987-005-0037-5. S2CID 128948363.
  5. ^ "Platinum". Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Arnolda, of New Bedford, Sep. 24-26, Oct. 4-6, 14-17, 1874, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, Aug. 10-12, Aug. 18-23, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM); E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, August 28–31, 1889, GBWL #761.
  8. ^ Daniel Wood, of New Bedford, Sep. 23, 1857, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC).
  9. ^ Harrison, of New Bedford, Sep. 4–6, 1853, NWC.
  10. ^ William Wirt, of New Bedford, July 27, 1855, NWC.
  11. ^ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, Aug. 14–19, 1859, NWC.
  12. ^ Josephine, of New Bedford, Sep. 23-25, 1861, KWM.
  13. ^ Louisa, of New Bedford, Sep. 11-14, 1858, NWC.
  14. ^ Nimrod, of New Bedford, Sep. 19, 1859, KWM.

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