Cape Bersen'yeva

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]

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]