Shelikan

Shelikan

Shelikan

Island in Far Eastern Federal District, Russian Federation

Shelikan, also Ostrovok Shelikan, is a coastal islet in the Sea of Okhotsk near Magadan. It lies on the south side of Amakhton Bay.[2]

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Geography

Shelikan is located on the west side of Taui Bay and is separated from the continental shore by a 2.5 km wide sound. It is 122 m (400 ft) in height and is surrounded by shallow water.[3]

Administratively this island is part of the Magadan Oblast.[4]

Fauna

In the spring and summer one of the largest known colonies of slaty-backed gull in the Russian Far East is found on the island.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    GoogleEarth
  2. [2]
    National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
  3. [3]
    United States. Naval Oceanographic Office (1952). Sailing directions for the east coast of Siberia, Mys Otto Shmidta to Sakhalinskiy Zaliv including Ostrov Vrangelya. p. 246. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  4. [4]
    Ostrovok Shelikan (Ostrov Shelikan) / Magadanskaya Oblast'
  5. [5]
    Kondratyev, A. Y., Litvinenko, N. M., Shibaev, Y. V., Vyatkin, P. S., & Kondratyeva, L. F. (2000). "The breeding seabirds of the Russian Far East". Seabirds of the Russian Far East, 37-81.


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