Shelting Bay


Shelting Bay is a wide bay on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. It lies just west of Taui Bay. It is entered between Capes Moskvitin and Dal'ny and is about 32 km wide. Its shores are primarily high and rocky, with the exception of a sandy beach at its northwest end. Sheltered anchorages from southerly winds may be obtained in the northwestern and eastern parts of the bay.

History

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s. They called it Isaac Howland or Three Brothers Bay, the former named after a New Bedford ship and the latter after a Nantucket ship that frequented the area at the time.