Trety Island

Trety Island or Treti Island (Остров Третий; Ostrov Trety, literally: The Third Island) is a relatively large island in the western shores of the Shelikhov Bay, at the northern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is located 4 km to the south of a peninsula that encloses a small bay in an area that is largely uninhabited.[1][2][3]

Trety Island

Остров Третий
Island
Trety Island
Coordinates: 61°34′N 162°34′E
CountryRussian Federation
Federal subjectKamchatka Krai

Geography

Trety Island is roughly triangular in shape. It is 8 km long and has a maximum width of 3.7 km.

2.3 km north of Trety, in the sound that separates it from the mainland shore, lies an islet only 700 m long and 400 m wide.

  • Vtoroy 61°28′N 163°00′E and Krayny (Остров Крайний) 61°27′N 163°00′E, or Chemenvytegartynup (Чеменвытегартынуп), a group of two smaller islands, lies about 30 km to the southeast of Trety. Krayny is the larger of the two and they are separated from each other by a 1.7 km wide sound.

Administratively Trety Island belongs to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation.

History

American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Krayny[4] from the 1860s to the 1880s. They called it Grampus Island. On 11 August 1867, the barque Stella (270 tons), of New Bedford, Capt. Ebenezer F. Nye, was wrecked on Krayny. Two men were killed as the barque was smashed to pieces. The rest of the crew were rescued by several nearby vessels.[5][6][7]

References
  1. "【インフォシーク】Infoseek ： 楽天が運営するポータルサイト". worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. "Ostrov Tretiy / Ostrov Tretiy, Koryakskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia, Europe". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. "Geographical data". worldcitydb.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, Aug. 14, 1866, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; Arnolda, of New Bedford, July 25, 1874, ODHS; Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, June 20-22, July 11-13, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum.
  5. Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, Aug. 15, 1867, ODHS.
  6. Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. XXV, No. 35, Oct. 29, 1867, New Bedford).
  7. Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
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