{{Short description|Bay in Magadan Oblast, Russia}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Luzhin Bay | native_name = {{native name|ru|Бухта Лужина}} | other_name = Horseshoe Bay | image = | caption = | pushpin_map = Russia Magadan Oblast | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Magadan Oblast | location = Russian Far East | coords = {{Coord|59|16|N|147|38|E|region:RU_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}} | rivers = | oceans = Sea of Okhotsk | countries = Russia | length = {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} | area = | depth = {{convert|9|m|abbr=on}} | settlements = | reference = <ref name="GE">GoogleEarth</ref> }}

'''Luzhin Bay''' ({{langx|ru|Бухта Лужина}}, ''Bukhta Luzhina'') is a bay in Magadan Oblast, Russian Federation. It is named after Russian cartographer Fyodor Luzhin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://npacific.kamchatka.ru/np/library/encicl/12/0011.htm |title=Морской биографический справочник Дальнего Востока России и Русской Америки |trans-title=Maritime biographical directory of the Russian Far East and Russian America |language=ru |access-date=10 April 2009 |archive-date=29 July 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020729151411/http://npacific.kamchatka.ru/np/library/encicl/12/0011.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Geography == Luzhin Bay is a small, circular bay with high, rocky shores.<ref name="GE" /> It lies on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and is separated from the larger Shelting Bay to the east by the Onara Peninsula.<ref name="mapcarta-1">{{cite web |url=http://mapcarta.com/16593012 |title=Bukhta Luzhina |work=Mapcarta |accessdate=14 January 2017}}</ref> It is entered between Capes Moskvitin to the east and Izmaylov to the west. It has not been surveyed.<ref name=ECR2014>National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). ''Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia''. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.</ref>

== History ==

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s. They called it '''Horseshoe Bay'''.<ref>''Three Brothers'', of Nantucket, August 31, 1852, September 11, 1853, Nantucket Historical Association.</ref><ref>''Pacific'', of Fairhaven, July 29-30, 1856, Nicholson Whaling Collection; ''Sea Breeze'', of New Bedford, October 1-2, 1866, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.</ref> They also anchored in the bay to get wood and water.<ref>''Charles W. Morgan'', of New Bedford, August 9-10, 1866, George Blunt White Library.</ref> In 1860, the barque ''Alice Frazier'' (406 tons), of New Bedford, attempted to winter in the bay but ice in December parted her chain and then drove her out to sea, forcing the men to winter with the Russians.<ref>Williams, H. (1964). ''One whaling family''. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Starbuck |first=Alexander |title=History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876 |year=1878 |publisher=Castle}}</ref><ref>''The Friend'', Honolulu, November 18, 1861, Vol. 18, No 11, p. 84.</ref>

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Category:Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk Category:Bays of Magadan Oblast Category:Pacific Coast of Russia Category:Shipwrecks in the Sea of Okhotsk

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