Cape Bersen'yeva

Cape Bersen'yeva (Russian: Mys Bersen'yeva) is a headland in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.^[1]

Cape Bersen'yeva Silas Richards Bluff
Cape
Cape Bersen'yeva
Coordinates: 54°17′N 137°23′E
Location	Khabarovsk Krai,  Russia
Offshore water bodies	Sea of Okhotsk
Area
• Total	Russian Far East

Geography

The cape is on the northeastern side of Tugur Bay, 20 km (about 12 mi) to the west of Seneka Point. It is high and conspicuous,^[2] rising to a height of 162 m (531 ft).^[1]

History

American whaleships frequented the waters off the cape between 1854 and 1889,^[3][4][5] anchoring off it and sending whaleboats down the bay for bowhead whales^[6] or sending boats to the cape itself to cruise for whales as well.^[7] Boat crews also camped at the cape.^[8] They called it Silas Richards Bluff,^[9] after the ship Silas Richards, of New Bedford, which was wrecked in a bay near the cape on 13 July 1854.^[10] On 27 July 1867, the bark Java, of New Bedford, was ordered out of Tugur Bay near the cape by a Russian man-of-war.^[11]