Trety Island Остров Третий | |
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  Trety Island | |
| Coordinates:61°34′N162°34′E / 61.567°N 162.567°E /61.567; 162.567 | |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Federal subject | Kamchatka Krai |
Trety Island orTreti Island (Остров Третий;Ostrov Trety, literally: The Third Island) is a relatively large island in the western shores of theShelikhov Bay, at the northern end of theSea 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 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 theKamchatka Krai of theRussian Federation.
Americanwhaleships cruised off Trety, Vtoroy and Krayny Islands forbowhead whales from 1863 to 1889.[4][5][6] They called them theGrampus Islands.[7] Trety was calledSquare Grampus orBig Grampus Island.[8] On 11 August 1867, thebarqueStella (270 tons), ofNew 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]
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