Reyneke Island (; Ostrov Reyneke) is an island in the Sea of Okhotsk, administratively part of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.Ostrov Reyneke, Khabarovskiy Kray The uninhabited island lies to the south-east of Menshikov Island, and has an area of approximately in length and a maximum width of . It is a mountainous island located close to a headland of the continental shore, separated from mainland Khabarovsk Krai by a wide sound.
History
Reyneke Island was named after Mikhail Reyneke, Vice Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy and an early hydrographer of the Russian Hydrographic Service in the region.Bio of M. Reyneke
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the island in the 1850s and 1860s.Massachusetts, of New Bedford, August 6, 1852, June 29, 1853, New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBW).Josephine, of New Bedford, August 25, 1864, Kendall Whaling Museum. They called it Duck Island, because ships went there to shoot "ducks" (though whalemen applied the term loosely to a variety of seabirds).Onward, of New Bedford, August 29, 1866, George Blunt White Library. They also went to the island to get wood and water.Massachusetts, of New Bedford, August 17, 1852, NBW.
References
External links Geographical coordinates of the points defining the position of the straight baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea, the economic zone and the continental shelf of the USSR off the continental coastline and islands of the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea