Scottish geographical magazine . m five to three fathoms, mustalways effectually prevent the ingress of large vessels. Like several otherKamchatkan harbours, such as those of Petropavlovsk and BerevinskaiaBukhta, near Cape Shipunski, the latter described by Guillemard(p. 216, vol. i.), it is sheltered by a long pointed sandspit, which runsout for some little distance into Ukinsk Bay. Right inside this, andclose to the shore, a second sandspit runs out in a nearly oppositedirection, cutting off, except at one point, a considerable part of theinner harbour; and on this second spit a choppy sea s
Scottish geographical magazine . m five to three fathoms, mustalways effectually prevent the ingress of large vessels. Like several otherKamchatkan harbours, such as those of Petropavlovsk and BerevinskaiaBukhta, near Cape Shipunski, the latter described by Guillemard(p. 216, vol. i.), it is sheltered by a long pointed sandspit, which runsout for some little distance into Ukinsk Bay. Right inside this, andclose to the shore, a second sandspit runs out in a nearly oppositedirection, cutting off, except at one point, a considerable part of theinner harbour; and on this second spit a choppy sea sometimesbreaks with considerable force. Thus the harbour is well protected, buta gale from the south-east might send in a sea dangerous to boats. Thereis good holding-ground on mud or sand, Avitli an average depth of seven * Russian charts of the Karaga harlDOur have since reached the Royal Geographical Society,so that a Russian man-of-war must have been there before us. (See The GeographicalJournal for Dec. 1898, pp. 647, 648.). Characteristic winter scenery of South Kamchatka ; Mount Avachinska in middlebackground; river, store-sheds, and birch-bark canoes in foreground.
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