Cape Povorotnyy (Russian: Мыс Поворотный, Mys Povorotnyy) is a headland on the southwest side of Penzhina Bay, the east arm of Shelikhov Gulf, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It has reddish cliffs and two large pillar rocks, on a detached drying reef, which lie about three miles southeast of the cape. It lies twenty miles east-northeast of Cape Taygonos.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
History
American whaleships hunting bowhead whales frequented the waters off the cape from 1862 to 1889.South Boston, of Fairhaven, July 27–28, 1862, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM) #771.Emma F. Herriman, of San Francisco, June 20, 1889, George Blunt White Library (GBWL) #761. They called it Rocky Point,Northern Light, of New Bedford, August 30, 1883, GBWL #761. and Vitaetglia Bay to its west Rocky Point Harbor,Josephine, of New Bedford, June 28, 1865, KWM #122C. where they anchored for shelter from southwesterly gales,Elizabeth Swift, of New Bedford, August 11, 1864, New Bedford Free Public Library (NBFL). to go ashore to get wood and water,Charles W. Morgan, of New Bedford, July 20–22, 1866, GBWL #147. stones for ballast,Active, of New Bedford, July 23, 1866, Smithsonian Institution (SI). and to shoot mountain sheep.Mary and Helen, of San Francisco, June 10, 1885, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS) #937.
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