Konus Island is an island in Shelikhov Bay, Sea of Okhotsk.Prostar Sailing Directions 2004 East Coast of Russia Geography Konus Island is 1.3 km long and 0.7 km wide. It is located off the eastern coast of Penzhina Bay, separated from the continental shore by a 3 km-wide sound. Administratively, it belongs to the Kamchatka Krai.Ostrov Konus - Kamtchatski Kray Ivyinichaman Island (Ивиньичаман) is located 7 km to the southwest.
History
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the island from 1860 to 1889. They called it Shag Rock.Othello, of New Bedford, July 17, 1860, Peabody Essex Museum #751.Milton, of New Bedford, July 9, 1863, July 16, 1863, East Hampton Library.E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, June 20-21, 1889, July 9, 1889, George Blunt White Library #761. Ships also anchored off the island to get coalJosephine, of New Bedford, June 26, 1865, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM) #122C.Mary and Helen, of San Francisco, May 14-17, 1885, July 21-23, 1885, KWM #937. and to trade with the natives for deer, fish, and berries.Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 18, 1866, Old Dartmouth Historical Society #490A.
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