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Menshikov Island

Menshikov Island (Russian: Остров Меньшикова; Ostrov Men'shikova) is an island in the Sea of Okhotsk located east of the Shantar Islands.

Menshikov Island lies 71 kilometres (44 mi) to the east of the eastern shore of Kusov Island, the easternmost island of the Shantar group. It is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long and has a maximum width of 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi). It was named after one of the ships of the 1849-1855 Amur Expedition, which had been named after Admiral A.S. Menshikov.

Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.

American whaleships sent whaleboats to the island to collect eggs from seabirds. They called it Bird Island.

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