Sentinel stones are three small rocky islands in the Bering Sea , at the entrance to Glubokaya Bay. Administratively belong to the Olyutor district of the Kamchatka Territory .
| Watch Stones | |
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| Specifications | |
| Population | 0 pax |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Kamchatka Krai |
| Area | Olyutor district |
Mapped by F.K. Geck in 1885 as Two Sentinels , since the rocks face the entrance to the bay like sentries . Subsequently, it turned out that the rocks are not two, but three, which explains the name change [1] .
Notes
- β Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 .-- S. 173. - 456 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .