Sivuch'i Rocks

The Sivuch'i Rocks are a group of barren islets and rocks on the eastern side of Uda Bay, in the western Sea of Okhotsk.

Geography

They lie just north of Medvezhy Island. The largest are two islets, lying northwest and southeast from each other, the former high and the latter high. A high pillar rock lies just to the southwest of the latter of the two islets. Reefs fringe the group.

History

American whaleships and boat crews cruised for bowhead whales around the rocks between 1855 and 1874. They called them the Sugar Loaf or Pinnacle Rocks. On the night of 11 October 1858, the bark Ocean Wave, under Captain Hiram Baker, of New Bedford, was wrecked on one of the rocks during a gale. All hands were lost.