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 11.3 kilometers (7.0 mi) wide and it is 5.6 kilometers (3.5 mi) deep. There are three small bays at its head: Enegelma Road to the west, Soboleva to the north, and Rosseta to the east. A small island, Sukhotina, lies to its southeast. In the spring and summer it is host to a small nesting colony of thick-billed murre.[1] A number of streams of fresh water flow down the hills into the bay. Spring tides rise 6.5 meters (21 ft) while neaps rise 2.4 meters (7 ft 10 in).[2]

History

Between 1852 and 1889, American whaleships anchored in the bay — particularly Soboleva at its head — 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.[3][4] The ship Lexington, of Nantucket, reported sixteen other whaleships anchored in Feklistova Harbor, of which five were boiling oil; seven more were seen coming in.[5]

The schooner E. L. Frost (141 tons), of Honolulu, was left in the bay for the winter of 1860–1861. She served as tender to the bark Benjamin Rush (385 tons), also of Honolulu, during the seasons of 1860 and 1861.[6][7]

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References
  1. Kondratyev, A. Y., Litvinenko, N. M., Shibaev, Y. V., Vyatkin, P. S., & Kondratyeva, L. F. (2000). "The breeding seabirds of the Russian Far East". Seabirds of the Russian Far East, 37-81.
  2. United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office.
  3. Arctic, of Fairhaven, September 20, 1852. In Gelett, C. W. (1917). A life on the ocean: Autobiography of Captain Charles Wetherby Gelett. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.
  4. Harrison, of New Bedford, August 30–September 1, September 4–11, 1853, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, August 14–19, 1859, NWC; Java, of New Bedford, September 28–October 5, 1865, September 23–25, 1866, NWC; Arnolda, of New Bedford, September 24–26, October 4–6, 14–17, 1874, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, August 10-12, August 18-23, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum; E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, August 28-31, 1889, GBWL #761.
  5. Lexington, of Nantucket, September 1, 1855, Nantucket Historical Association.
  6. Benjamin Rush, of Honolulu, in Polynesian, Honolulu, December 8, 1860, Vol. XVII, No. 32.
  7. Benjamin Rush, of Honolulu, October 11, 1861, in Polynesian, Honolulu, November 23, 1861, Vol. XVIII, No. 30.


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