Cape Opasnyy (Russian: Мыс Опасный, Mys Opasnyy) is a very prominent headland in Penzhina Bay, the right arm of Shelikhov Gulf, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It lies to the northwest of The Gorlo. A ledge projects about three quarters of a mile east-northeast of the headland, while a group of detached rocks lies about 1.2 miles north northeast of it.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.United States Naval Oceanographic Office. (1952). Sailing Directions for the east coast of Siberia: Mys Otto Shmidta to Sakhalinskiy Zaliv, including Ostrov Vrangelya. United States Government Printing Office, Washington.
Administratively Cape Opasnyy belongs to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation.
History
American whaleships hunting bowhead whales frequented the waters off the cape from 1866 to 1889.Sunbeam, of New Bedford, July 15-16, 1866, New Bedford Free Public Library (NBFL).Emma F. Herriman, of San Francisco, July 2, 1889, GBWL #761. They called it Othello Cape,Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, July 19, 1868, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS) #490A. and the ledge to its east-northeast Othello Reef,Northern Light, of New Bedford, August 18, 1883, GBWL #761. both after a ship that visited the area in the early 1860s. They anchored under the cape and reef to seek shelter from southwesterly gales.Benjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, July 20, 1868, NBFL. Boats went ashore after salmonBenjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, June 30, 1869, NBFL. and wood,Europa, of Edgartown, July 20, 1868, ODHS #303. and also to trade with the nativesSea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 5, 1868, ODHS #768A. from the nearby Koryak village of Big Itkana.Jochelson, W. (1905). "The Koryak". The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Vol. VI. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. Leiden/New York.
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