Menshikov Island
{{Short description|Island in the country of Russia}}
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Menshikov Island ({{langx|ru|Остров Меньшикова}}; Ostrov Men'shikova) is an island in the Sea of Okhotsk located east of the Shantar Islands.GoogleEarth
Geography
Menshikov Island lies {{convert|71|km}} to the east of the eastern shore of Kusov Island, the easternmost island of the Shantar group. It is {{convert|7|km}} long and has a maximum width of {{convert|1.6|km}}. It was named after one of the ships of the 1849-1855 Amur Expedition, which had been named after Admiral A.S. Menshikov.Emil Bretschneider, History of European Botanical Discoveries in China, p. 574
Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.[http://www.satelliteview.co/?lid=2020060_RU_TISL_30&place=Ostrov-Men%27shikova-Russia Ostrov Menshikova, Russia]
History
American whaleships sent whaleboats to the island to collect eggs from seabirds. They called it Bird Island.Montezuma, of New London, June 27, 1858, Nicholson Whaling Collection.
References
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External links
- [https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/RUS_1984_Declaration.pdf 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]
{{Sea of Okhotsk Islands}}
Category:Islands of the Sea of Okhotsk
Category:Islands of the Russian Far East
Category:Islands of Khabarovsk Krai
Category:Uninhabited islands of Russia
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