Oshika Peninsula
| Oshika Peninsula | ||
 Landsat image of the Oshika Peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 16 '17 " N , 141 ° 31' 25" E | |
| Waters 1 | Pacific Ocean | |
| Waters 2 | Ishinomaki Bay | |
The Oshika Peninsula or Ojika Peninsula ( Japanese 牡 鹿 半島 , Oshika-hantō ) is a peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture in Japan and forms the southern end of the Sanriku Coast . The peninsula is preceded by the islands of Aji and Tashiro in the southwest and the island of Kinkasan in the southeast.
It lies north of Sendai and separates the Pacific Ocean in the east from Ishinomaki Bay in the west. Ishinomaki and Onagawa are among the towns and cities on the peninsula . With the exception of the Onagawa district, the peninsula formed the Oshika-chō community until March 31, 2005.
History
A ship of the Great Nordic Expedition (or the Second Kamchatka Expedition ) of Vitus Jonassen Bering under the command of Martin Spangberg anchored near the island of Aji in the early summer of 1739 and was evicted a few days later. The authorities at the time did not know that it was a Russian ship. The German geographer Gerhard Friedrich Müller described the events in detail using Spangberg's diary.
literature
- Wilhelm, Johannes (2009): Resource Management in Japanese Inshore Fisheries. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn. (Contains a comprehensive section on the cultural and social history of the peninsula, especially the Cape of Yoriiso.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller, Gerhard Friedrich (1758): News from sea voyages and discoveries made at sea that have long since happened from Russia along the coasts of the Eißmeer and on the Eastern Oceans against Japan and America (= Collection of Russian History, 3 (1-3 )). Part of the ten-volume collection of Russian history published from 1732 to 1818. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences. Pp. 165-189.