Shantar Islands National Park

The Shantar Islands National Park encompasses fifteen islands with steep cliffs, dense forests, and marine zones spanning over 1.2 million acres in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Russian explorer Ivan Moskvitin first documented the Shantar Islands in 1640 while returning from an expedition to the Amur River mouth.

The name Shantar derives from the Nivkh language term č'and, meaning white, reflecting the indigenous peoples who inhabited these islands until the 1730s.

The park remains ice-bound for approximately eight months yearly, with only two to three months of ice-free waters in the Sea of Okhotsk.

The national park houses the sole population of rainbow trout in the Russian Far East found outside the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Location: Khabarovsk Krai

Inception: 2013

Website: http://zapovedamur.ru

GPS coordinates: 55.00000,137.50000

Latest update: March 6, 2025 04:13