Trety Island Explained

Trety Island
Native Name:Остров Третий
Native Name Lang:Russian language
Coordinates:61.5667°N 196°W
Pushpin Map:Russia Kamchatka Krai
Pushpin Label Position:right
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russian Federation
Subdivision Type1:Federal subject
Subdivision Name1:Kamchatka Krai

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]

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.

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 【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. 26 December 2017.
  2. Web site: Ostrov Tretiy / Ostrov Tretiy, Koryakskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia, Europe. travelingluck.com. 26 December 2017.
  3. Web site: Geographical data. worldcitydb.com. 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. Book: Starbuck, Alexander . History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876 . 1878 . Castle . 1-55521-537-8 .