| Reyneke Island | |
| Native Name: | Остров Рейнеке |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian language |
| Coordinates: | 54.3167°N 186°W |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 257 |
| Population Total: | 0 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Khabarovsk Krai |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Russia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Federal Subject |
| Subdivision Name1: | Khabarovsk Krai |
Reyneke Island (Russian: Остров Рейнеке; Ostrov Reyneke) is an island in the Sea of Okhotsk, administratively part of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.[2] The uninhabited island lies 45km (28miles) to the south-east of Menshikov Island, and has an area of approximately 7km (04miles) in length and a maximum width of 1.6km (01miles). It is a mountainous island located close to a headland of the continental shore, separated from mainland Khabarovsk Krai by a 4.5km (02.8miles) wide sound.[3]
Reyneke Island was named after Mikhail Reyneke, Vice Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy and an early hydrographer of the Russian Hydrographic Service in the region.[4]
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the island in the 1850s and 1860s.[5] [6] They called it Duck Island, because ships went there to shoot "ducks" (though whalemen applied the term loosely to a variety of seabirds).[7] They also went to the island to get wood and water.[8]