Leonhard Stejneger

1901; Washington DC

BW photo-Lithograph

VG to VG+; verso blank

22 x23 on a slightly larger sheet, folding

Shows' most of east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, but focuses on the Komandorski Islands (Bering & Copper). Inn the lower rights are  3 of the "Near Islands" (Aleutians): Attu, Agattu and Semitchi.

 Sounding  taken during the voyage of the USS Tuscarora in 1874 and USFCS Albatross in 1892 & 1895

 Printed by The Norris Peters Co, Washington DC. 

These were ,as I recall were in a report of the Seal population in the Bering sea or, rather, the lack of it.

Known as the "hidden Jewel of the U.S.-Russia Maritime Boundary," Bering Island is treeless, desolate and experiences severe weather, including high winds, persistent fog and earthquakes. It had no year-round human residents until roughly 1826. Now, the village of Nikolskoye is home to 800 people, roughly three hundred of them identifying as Aleuts. The island's small population is involved mostly in fishing. 

Medny Island (Russian: о́стров Ме́дный), also spelled Mednyy or Mednyi, sometimes called Copper Island in English (literally translated from Russian), is the smaller (after Bering Island) of the two main islands in the Commander Islands in the North Pacific Ocean, east of Kamchatka, Russia. (The other fifteen are better described as islets and rocks.)

These islands belong to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation