The Koni Peninsula projects into the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk; Historically also known as , or as ; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the sou ...

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, in the

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, and has an area of 103,434 hectares. Its north-western shores are on the

Taui Bay Taui Bay ( Russian: Тауйская губа; ''Tauyskaya Guba'') is a body of water in the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of the Magadan Oblast in Russia. The bay opens to the south. Geography It is some 130 km (80 mi) wide and 75 km (4 ...

. Its north-eastern shores are on the

Odyan Bay Odyan Bay (Russian: Залив Одян, trans.: ''Zaliv Odyan'') is a small bay on the north coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is in the eastern corner of Taui Bay and washes the Koni Peninsula on the south. The bay is entered between Cape Beringa ...

; the latter one resolves into the ("

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Bay"). The Peninsula's south-eastern shore is on the . From the Zabiyaka Bay northwards the makes a notch into the

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between the peninsula and the mainland, into the valley of the Siglan River. The

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sector of the

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is situated on the peninsula, in its western part. Its eastern border runs from (Плоский, "Flat") in the north approximately south-eastwards along several watersheds down to the mouth of the Antara River (about 9 kilometers east of (Блиган).) The shores of the reserve are surrounded by the buffer zone, a 2-kilometer wide strip of the sea from Cape Ploskiy to two nameless streams 9km to the east of the Antara River. Like in the Reserve, any human activities (such as hunting, fishing, ''

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'' harvesting, etc.) are prohibited. The Ola sector was the first part of the Reserve, established in 1947 after the research carried out following the February 19, 1941 directive of

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directorate. The peninsula adjoins the territory of the regional hunting reserve in the continental part of the Magadan Oblast. The relief of the Koni Peninsula is mostly mountainous, with peaks rising to 1,300-1,500 meters above sea level. The highest of them is Mount Skalistaya, 1,548 meters. The rivers are small and rapid. In the central part there are small volcanic lakes. Its westernmost promontory is ("Cape

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"). There is a lighthouse (international code M 8015) on its slope.

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