Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) is one of the Shantar Islands in Sea of Okhotsk. With an area of , it is the second largest in the archipelago.
Geography Feklistova is west to east and north to south.United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office. It lies about west of Bolshoy Shantar Island, the main island in the group. Feklistov Island is covered with taiga forest and has a lake on its northern shore separated from the sea by a spit of land.GoogleEarth
Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of placers which include minerals like "blacksand platinum". The "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" is one of the major metallogenic belts of Northeast Asia. It is assumed that it formed by an oblique subduction of the oceanic crust of the Mongol-Okhotsk paleoocean under the southern margin of the Siberian continent.
History Between 1852 and 1889, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Feklistova Island.Arctic, of Fairhaven, Sep. 20, 1852. In Gelett, C. W. (1917). A life on the ocean: Autobiography of Captain Charles Wetherby Gelett. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.Arnolda, of New Bedford, Sep. 24-26, Oct. 4-6, 14-17, 1874, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, Aug. 10-12, Aug. 18-23, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM); E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, August 28–31, 1889, GBWL #761. They also anchored in Lebyazhya Bay on the south side of the island to stow downDaniel Wood, of New Bedford, Sep. 23, 1857, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC). or boil oil,Harrison, of New Bedford, Sep. 4–6, 1853, NWC. flense whales,William Wirt, of New Bedford, July 27, 1855, NWC. and obtain wood and waterMary Frazier, of New Bedford, Aug. 14–19, 1859, NWC. or shelter from storms.Josephine, of New Bedford, Sep. 23-25, 1861, KWM. They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor.Louisa, of New Bedford, Sep. 11-14, 1858, NWC. As many as forty-two ships could be anchored in Lebyazhya Bay at one time.Nimrod, of New Bedford, Sep. 19, 1859, KWM.
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External links Satellite view for Ostrov Feklistova Pictures