Tyuleny Island (Sea of Okhotsk)

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This article is about the island in the Sea of Okhotsk. For other similarly named islands, see Tyuleny Island.
Tyuleny
Тюлений
Island
Northern fur seal rookery on the Island beside a bird colony.
Northern fur seal rookery on the Island beside a bird colony.
Location of Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Location of Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Country Russian Federation
Federal subject Sakhalin Oblast
Elevation 18 m (59 ft)

Tyuleny Island (Ostrov Tyuleniy) is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk, just east of Russia's Sakhalin island, Northeast Asia.[1]

Geography

The island is administered by Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East District of the Russian Federation. It was within the Karafuto Prefecture of Imperial Japan from 1905 to 1945.

Tyuleny Island is located 19 kilometres (12 mi) to the south of Cape Patience (Mys Terpeniya), off the coast of the southern end of the Terpeniya Peninsula of eastern Sakhalin island.[2] It is 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) long and 19 metres (62 ft) wide.

History

Fur seals were hunted on the island between 1854 and 1897. Over 100,000 were caught, with over half being taken by foreign vessels illegally. This led to the seizure of several schooners by Russian men-of-war in 1884 and 1891 and the arrest of a party of seventeen men left by a British vessel in 1895.[3]

Natural history

There are many seals on Tyuleny's shores and in its surrounding waters, hence its name which means "seal" in the Russian language.[4] It was formerly called "Robben Island" from the German name for seal. [5]

Seabirds of different species are also abundant on Tyuleny.[6]

The "Tyuleny Virus", a group B arbovirus, was recovered in 1969 on Tyuleny Island from ticks on birds.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Worldcitydb.com: Geographic data
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Jordan, David Starr (1898). The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean. Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Win.tue.nl: former Robben Island name
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