Starichkov Island [1] [2] is an island in Russia located off the southeast coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northern part of Sarannaya Bay [2] in the southern part of the Avachinsky Bay of the Bering Sea , northeast of the mouth of the Bolshaya Sarannaya River and south of the city of Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky and the entrance to Avacha Bay . Got its name from the colony of ordinary old people living on it. Known for its colony of waterfowl and is a specially protected natural area [3] . An ordinary old man nests on the island ( Synthliboramphus antiquus ), listed in the Red Book of the Kamchatka Territory . It is managed by the Kamchatka branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences . The highest point is 147 meters above sea level [1] . To the north of the island are Karaulny stone and Rock Finger (Sentinel) [1] .
| Starichkov Island | |
|---|---|
 Heinrich von Kittlitz . Starichkov Island, natural marina | |
| Specifications | |
| Highest point | 147 m |
| Location | |
| Water area | Avacha Bay |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Kamchatka Krai |
| Area | Elizovo district |
In the years 1826-1829, Heinrich von Kittlitz took part in the round-the-world trip of Fedor Litke on the senewine Senyavin . Kittlitz visited Starichkov Island, captured it in his watercolors and left a description in the essay “Memoirs of a Journey to Russian America, Micronesia and Kamchatka” ( Denkwürdigkeiten einer Reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka , 1858). Litke left a description of the island in the essay “Traveling around the world, made by order of Emperor Nicholas I on the military sloop Senyavin in 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829” [4] [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Map sheet N-57-XXVII Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . Scale: 1: 200 000. Indicate the date of issue / condition of the area .
- ↑ 1 2 Starichkov ( No. 0259186 ) / Register of names of geographical objects on the territory of the Kamchatka Territory as of December 6, 2018 // State Catalog of Geographical Names. rosreestr.ru.
- ↑ 100 places in Russia that you must see before you die / [ed. V.N.Singaevsky]. - M .: AST, 2009 .-- 254 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-062278-8 .
- ↑ Litke, Fedor Petrovich . A voyage around the world, made by order of Emperor Nicholas I on the military sloop Senyavin in 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829, of the fleet by captain Fedor Litke: Separate sailing. - SPb. : type of. H. Ginze, 1835 .-- 356 p.
- ↑ Strecker, Lisa. Baron Heinrich von Kittlitz. German nobleman in the service of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences // Cultures and landscapes of Northeast Asia. 250 years of Russian-German research on the ecology and culture of the indigenous peoples of Kamchatka: [digest] / Culture Fund of the Peoples of Siberia; [resp. ed. series Erich Kasten]. - [Norderstedt], 2010. - S. 82-83. - 199 p. - (SEC Siberian Ecologies and Cultures Publications).