Glinyanyy Island (Russian: Глинянный остров, Ostrovok Glinyanyy) is a small island on the east side of Gizhigin Bay, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It is cone shaped.[1]

Glinyanyy Island
Glinyanyy Island is located in Magadan Oblast
Glinyanyy Island
Glinyanyy Island
Coordinates: 61°27′N 160°00′E / 61.450°N 160.000°E / 61.450; 160.000
CountryRussian Federation
Federal subjectMagadan Oblast

Administratively Glinyanyy Island belongs to the Magadan Oblast of the Russian Federation.

History

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American whaleships hunting bowhead whales frequented the waters off the island from 1862 to 1905.[2][3] They called it Ell Island,[4] and used the bay to the east of the island as an anchorage, which they called Ell Harbor,[5] short for Othello Harbor,[6] named after a ship that utilized the harbor in the early 1860s.[7][8][9][10] They anchored here to send whaleboats to the head of Gizhigin Bay to cruise for whales[11][12] and as a shelter from southwest winds,[13][14] to obtain wood, water, and stone for ballast,[15] to smoke ship to kill rats,[16] and to trade rum with the natives for reindeer.[17] They also went ashore to gather berries[18] and shoot ducks.[19]

References

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  1. ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
  2. ^ South Boston, of Fairhaven, June 18-19, 1862, Kendall Whaling Museum (KWM) #771.
  3. ^ Andrew Hicks, of San Francisco, May 31-June 3, 1905, New Bedford Free Public Library (NBFL).
  4. ^ Charles W. Morgan, of New Bedford, June 10-18, 1866, NBFL.
  5. ^ Benjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, May 21-23, 1869, NBFL.
  6. ^ Josephine, of New Bedford, June 18, 1865, KWM #122C.
  7. ^ Polynesian, of Honolulu, November 10, 1860, Vol. XVII, No. 28.
  8. ^ Othello spoken by Florida, of Fairhaven, August 7, August 9, August 12, and August 21, 1861, in One Whaling Family (1964), pp. 194-196, 198.
  9. ^ Polynesian, of Honolulu, October 25, 1862, Vol. XIX, No. 26.
  10. ^ Othello spoken by South Boston, of Fairhaven, June 18-19, 1862, Glinyanyy Island, KWM #771.
  11. ^ Onward, of New Bedford, June 8, 1866, George Blunt White Library (GBWL) #856.
  12. ^ Mary and Helen, of San Francisco, May 22, 1885, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS) #937.
  13. ^ Benjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, June 14-16, 1868, NBFL.
  14. ^ United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office, p. 84.
  15. ^ Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 17-21, 1867, ODHS #490A.
  16. ^ Europa, of Edgartown, June 7, 1869, ODHS #303.
  17. ^ Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, May 31, 1867, ODHS #768A.
  18. ^ Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 17, 1867, ODHS #768A.
  19. ^ John and Winthrop, of San Francisco, May 27, 1902, NBFL.