| Feklistova | |
| Native Name: | Остров Феклистова |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian language |
| Settlement Type: | Island |
| Coordinates: | 55°N 193°W |
| Area Total Km2: | 372 |
| Elevation M: | 415 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Khabarovsk Krai |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Federation |
| Subdivision Type1: | Federal subject |
| Subdivision Name1: | Far Eastern Federal District |
| Subdivision Type2: | Krai |
| Subdivision Name2: | Khabarovsk Krai |
Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) is one of the Shantar Islands in Sea of Okhotsk. With an area of 372km2, it is the second largest in the archipelago.[1]
Feklistova is 240NaN0 west to east and 19.3frac=16NaNfrac=16 north to south.[2] It lies about 20km (10miles) west of Bolshoy Shantar Island, the main island in the group. Feklistov Island is covered with taiga forest and has a 3km (02miles) lake on its northern shore separated from the sea by a spit of land.[3]
Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of placers [4] which include minerals like "blacksand platinum".[5] The "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" is one of the major metallogenic belts of Northeast Asia. It is assumed that it formed by an oblique subduction of the oceanic crust of the Mongol-Okhotsk paleoocean under the southern margin of the Siberian continent.
Between 1852 and 1889, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Feklistova Island.[6] [7] They also anchored in Lebyazhya Bay on the south side of the island to stow down[8] or boil oil,[9] flense whales,[10] and obtain wood and water[11] or shelter from storms.[12] They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor.[13] As many as forty-two ships could be anchored in Lebyazhya Bay at one time.[14]