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 Ul'bansky Bay.[1]

History

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the cape between 1855 and 1874.[2] They called it Washington Head, 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

  1. ↑ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
  2. ↑ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 8, 1855, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, July 14-15, 1874, George Blunt White Library.
  3. ↑ Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 9, 1855, NWC.
  4. ↑ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.

Coordinates: 53°58′N 137°51′E / 53.967°N 137.850°E / 53.967; 137.850

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