Cruises from Tyuleny Island
Tyuleny Island, a small island measuring just 650m in length and 120m in width, is situated at the southern end of the Terpeniya Peninsula in the Sea of Okhotsk, off eastern Sakhalin coast of Russia. Beaches give way to a 50m high rocky ridge running the length of the crescent island. Though the island is uninhabited there are a few timbered buildings there. During winter the sea is covered with ice floes, and subject to severe weather and fogs. Read more
During the 19th C the region was a centre for whaling. Administratively, Tyuleny Island belongs to Russia, and its name means ‘seal’ in Russian.