Cape Opasnyy | |
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Coordinates: 61°42′N 163°20′E / 61.700°N 163.333°E | |
Country | Russian Federation |
Federal subject | Kamchatka Krai |
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. [1] [2]
Administratively Cape Opasnyy belongs to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation.
American whaleships hunting bowhead whales frequented the waters off the cape from 1866 to 1889. [3] [4] They called it Othello Cape, [5] and the ledge to its east-northeast Othello Reef, [6] 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. [7] Boats went ashore after salmon [8] and wood, [9] and also to trade with the natives [10] from the nearby Koryak village of Big Itkana. [11]