Prokofyeva Island

Prokofyeva (Russian: Ostrov Prokofyeva) is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

[1] It is one of the Shantar Islands.

It lies to the northeast of Bolshoy Shantar Island.

Prokofyeva was frequented by American whaleships cruising for bowhead whales between 1855 and 1885.

[2] In the spring and summer there is a small nesting colony of thick-billed murre on the island.