Cape Alevina
Cape Alevina (Russian: Mys Alevina, Alevin Cape) is a cape on the northern side of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is on the Koni Peninsula and is the southernmost point of Magadan Oblast, Russia.
There is the Alevina Lighthouse on the cape (international code М 8021). Constructed during 1956-1958, it was officially announced in 1959.[1]
History
[edit]American whaleships hunted bowhead and gray whales off the cape between 1852 and 1866.[2] On 12 July 1851 the ship Houqua (339 tons), Capt. Brown, of New Bedford, was wrecked on the rocks about two miles east of the cape during a fog. Her crew was found on the beach two weeks later by the ship Canton (409 tons), Capt. J. Allen, of the same port, which also salvaged 1,100 of 2,700 bbls of whale oil left aboard the wreck before it broke up.[3][4] One side of the bows with the night heads – as well as some spars and driftwood – from the wreck were still visible high up on the rocks two years later.[5]
Climate
[edit]Cape Alevina has a transitional arctic tundra/subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification ET/Dfc) with very cold, long winters and short, rather cool summers.
| Climate data for Cape Alevina (Climate ID:25916) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 5.5 (41.9) |
7.1 (44.8) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.3 (48.7) |
17.4 (63.3) |
21.5 (70.7) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
18.6 (65.5) |
12.3 (54.1) |
6.9 (44.4) |
7.4 (45.3) |
26.1 (79.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −8.8 (16.2) |
−9.9 (14.2) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
3.5 (38.3) |
8.8 (47.8) |
12.2 (54.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
9.8 (49.6) |
3.9 (39.0) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
1.2 (34.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.2 (11.8) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
5.8 (42.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
10.4 (50.7) |
7.5 (45.5) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−8.7 (16.3) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.9 (7.0) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−12.3 (9.9) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
3.5 (38.3) |
7.2 (45.0) |
8.1 (46.6) |
5.3 (41.5) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −28.7 (−19.7) |
−29.6 (−21.3) |
−26.6 (−15.9) |
−20.9 (−5.6) |
−11.7 (10.9) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−16.1 (3.0) |
−23.5 (−10.3) |
−30 (−22) |
−30 (−22) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 24.4 (0.96) |
16.1 (0.63) |
25.4 (1.00) |
16.5 (0.65) |
24.0 (0.94) |
39.6 (1.56) |
64.9 (2.56) |
91.6 (3.61) |
71.9 (2.83) |
60.5 (2.38) |
51.9 (2.04) |
38.6 (1.52) |
525.4 (20.68) |
| Source: Roshydromet[6] | |||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Алевина маяк
- ^ Corinthian, of New Bedford, June 18-21, 1852, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS); Erie, of Fairhaven, Sep. 5, 1852, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, Oct. 7, 1866, ODHS.
- ^ Whalemen’s Shipping List and Merchants’ Transcript (Vol. IX, No. 44, Dec. 30, 1851, p. 174, New Bedford).
- ^ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
- ^ Daniel Wood, of New Bedford, Aug. 13, 1853, NWC.
- ^ "Climate of Cape Alevina" (in Russian). Weather and Climate (Погода и климат). Retrieved 2 November 2019.
58°50′N 151°20′E / 58.833°N 151.333°E
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