Severo-Vostochnaya Gavan' ( English: ''Northeast Harbor'') is a small cove on the north side of

Uda Bay Uda Bay (; ''Udskaya Guba'') is a bay in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Federation. Geography Uda Bay is located in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk. It lies just west of the Shantar Islands. The Uda River flows into it. It is entered between Cape ...

, in the western

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. It lies 2.4 km (1.5 mi) west of Cape Nosorog. It offers shelter from northeast gales.United States. (1918). ''Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen''. Washington: Hydrographic Office.

History

Severo-Vostochnaya Gavan' was frequented by American whaleships cruising for

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s in the 1850s and 1860s. They obtained wood and water here and also sent out

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s on extended trips to the head of Uda Gulf or to Tugur Bay. On 18 September 1864, the barque ''Mary'' (287 tons), of

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, was wrecked in the bay during a gale. Her captain, Edwin P. Thompson, traveled to the Russian whaling station Mamga in Tugur Bay, where she was sold at auction for between $970 and $1,100 to Otto Wilhelm Lindholm. The second mate and four men guarded the wreck during the winter, and the following spring Lindholm salvaged what valuables he could before setting her afire to obtain the nails in her hull.Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). ''Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm''. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing.

References

Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk Bays of Khabarovsk Krai Shipwrecks in the Sea of Okhotsk {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub