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 Ulban Bay.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
History
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the cape between 1855 and 1885.Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 8, 1855, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 14, 1858, NWC; Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, July 14-15, 1874, George Blunt White Library; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum. They called it Mercury or Washington Head, the former name after the ship Mercury (340 tons), of New Bedford, which visited the area during her voyage of 1852–1855, and the latter name after the ship Washington (340 tons), of Sag Harbor, which was stove by ice and run ashore near the cape in 1855.Mary Frazier, of New Bedford, July 9, 1855, NWC.
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