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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.
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Map of Tretiy Island, Kamchatka Krai, Russia, 688866
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 for bowhead whales off Trety and Krayny in the 1860s and 1870s. They called the former Ship Rock and the latter 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.