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 is located in Kamchatka Krai
Trety 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 off Trety, Vtoroy and Krayny Islands for bowhead whales from 1863 to 1889.[4][5][6] They called them the Grampus Islands.[7] Trety was called Square Grampus or Big Grampus Island.[8] On 11 August 1867, the barque Stella (270 tons), of New Bedford, Capt. Ebenezer F. Nye, was wrecked on Trety. Two men were killed as the barque was smashed to pieces. The rest of the crew were rescued by several nearby vessels.[9][10][11][12][13]

References
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  3. "Geographical data". worldcitydb.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. Milton, of New Bedford, July 4, 1863, East Hampton Library.
  5. Mary and Helen II, of San Francisco, June 20-22, July 11-13, 1885, Kendall Whaling Museum.
  6. E. F. Herriman, of San Francisco, June 18 to July 25, 1889, George Blunt White Library (GBWL).
  7. Onward, of New Bedford, July 21, 1864, GBWL.
  8. Northern Light, of New Bedford, August 17, 1883, GBWL.
  9. Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 15, 1867, ODHS.
  10. Benjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, August 16, 1867, New Bedford Free Library (NBFL).
  11. Sunbeam, of New Bedford, August 15-17, 1867, NBFL.
  12. Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. XXV, No. 35, Oct. 29, 1867, New Bedford).
  13. 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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