Oshika Peninsula

Geographical location

The Oshika Peninsula or Ojika Peninsula (Japanese牡 鹿 半岛, Oshika- Hanto ) is a peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture in Japan and forms the southern end of the Sanriku coast. The Peninsula are the islands Aji and Tashiro in the southwest and the island Kinkasan upstream to the southeast.

It lies north of Sendai and separates the Pacific Ocean to the east from the Ishinomaki Bay in the west. Among the municipalities and cities on the peninsula include Ishinomaki and Onagawa. With the exception of the district Onagawa the peninsula formed by 31 March 2005, the municipality of Oshika -chō ".

History

A ship of the Great Northern Expedition (or the Second Kamchatka Expedition ) by Vitus Jonassen Bering, under the command of Martin Spangsberg went in early summer 1739 near the island of Aji at anchor and was forced referenced a few days later. The then authorities did not know that it was a Russian ship. The German geographer Gerhard Friedrich Müller has described the events based on Spang Berg's diary detail.