Cape Povorotnyy

Cape Povorotnyy (Russian: Мыс Поворотный, Mys Povorotnyy) is a headland on the southwest side of Penzhina Bay, the east arm of Shelikhov Gulf, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It has reddish cliffs and two large pillar rocks, on a detached drying reef, which lie about three miles southeast of the cape. It lies twenty miles east-northeast of Cape Taygonos.[1]

This article is about the headland in Magadan Oblast. For the cape in Primorsky Krai, see Cape Povorotny.
Cape Povorotnyy
Headland
Cape Povorotnyy is located in Magadan Oblast
Cape Povorotnyy
Cape Povorotnyy
Coordinates: 60°43′N 160°46′E
CountryRussian Federation
Federal subjectMagadan Oblast

History

American whaleships hunting bowhead whales frequented the waters off the cape from 1862 to 1889.[2][3] They called it Rocky Point,[4] and Vitaetglia Bay to its west Rocky Point Harbor,[5] where they anchored for shelter from southwesterly gales,[6] to go ashore to get wood and water,[7] stones for ballast,[8] and to shoot mountain sheep.[9]

References
  1. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
  2. South Boston, of Fairhaven, July 27–28, 1862, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM) #771.
  3. Emma F. Herriman, of San Francisco, June 20, 1889, George Blunt White Library (GBWL) #761.
  4. Northern Light, of New Bedford, August 30, 1883, GBWL #761.
  5. Josephine, of New Bedford, June 28, 1865, KWM #122C.
  6. Elizabeth Swift, of New Bedford, August 11, 1864, New Bedford Free Public Library (NBFL).
  7. Charles W. Morgan, of New Bedford, July 20–22, 1866, GBWL #147.
  8. Active, of New Bedford, July 23, 1866, Smithsonian Institution (SI).
  9. Mary and Helen, of San Francisco, June 10, 1885, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS) #937.


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