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