It is located off the eastern coast of Penzhina Bay, separated from the continental shore by a 6.8 km wide sound.

[4] Administratively it belongs to the Kamchatka Krai.

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the island from 1860 to 1889.

They called it Umbrella Island.

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