Uka

Uka lies at the mouth of the river of the same name on northeastern Kamchatka. The river's Koryak name has been translated as “herring river,” reflecting the importance of fish in this coastal country. In the eighteenth century the explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov described the Uka as a boundary between Itelmen communities and settled Koryaks of the Karaga region, a meeting place of neighbouring peoples along the peninsula's shores.