Cape Bersen'yeva Silas Richards Bluff | |
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  Cape Bersen'yeva | |
| Coordinates: 54°17′N137°23′E / 54.283°N 137.383°E | |
| Location | Khabarovsk Krai, Russia |
| Offshore water bodies | Sea of Okhotsk |
| Area | |
| • Total | Russian Far East |
Cape Bersen'yeva (Russian: Mys Bersen'yeva) is a headland in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. [1]
The cape is on the northeastern side of Tugur Bay, 20 km (about 12 mi) to the west of Seneka Point. It is high and conspicuous, [2] rising to a height of 162 m (531 ft). [1]
American whaleships frequented the waters off the cape between 1854 and 1889, [3] [4] [5] anchoring off it and sending whaleboats down the bay for bowhead whales [6] or sending boats to the cape itself to cruise for whales as well. [7] Boat crews also camped at the cape. [8] They called it Silas Richards Bluff, [9] after the ship Silas Richards, of New Bedford, which was wrecked in a bay near the cape on 13 July 1854. [10] On 27 July 1867, the bark Java, of New Bedford, was ordered out of Tugur Bay near the cape by a Russian man-of-war. [11]
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