Aldoma Bay
Aldoma Bay (Russian: Zaliv Aldoma) is a small bay in the western Sea of Okhotsk. It is 8 km (5 mi) east to west and 14.5 km (9 mi) north to south. The Aldoma River flows into it from the west; to its east lies the Nurki Peninsula. It is considered the best anchorage in the northwestern part of the sea as it offers shelter from northeast winds.[1][2]
History
[edit]American and Russian whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s.[3][4] They also anchored in the bay to get wood and water.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office.
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
- ^ a b Phoenix, of Nantucket, June 25-28, 1858, Nantucket Historical Association.
- ^ Storfursten Constantin, of Helsinki, October 1860. In Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing.
56°48′N 138°30′E / 56.800°N 138.500°E
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