Rovnyy Island or Arka Island[2] is an island in Shelikhov Bay, Sea of Okhotsk.[3]
Geography
Rovnyy Island is 2.2 km long and 1.4 km wide. It is located off the eastern coast of Penzhina Bay, separated from the continental shore by a 6.8 km wide sound.[4] Administratively it belongs to the Kamchatka Krai.
History
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the island from 1860 to 1889. They called it Umbrella Island.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ Ostrov Arka / Kamtchatski Kray
- ^ Zoosystematica Rossica. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. p. 105. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Ostrov Rovnyy
- ^ Othello, of New Bedford, August 30, 1860, Peabody Essex Museum #751.
- ^ Onward, of New Bedford, July 12, 1864, George Blunt White Library (GBWL) #856.
- ^ E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, July 12, 1889, GBWL #761.
