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.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
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.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). They called it Ell Island,Charles W. Morgan, of New Bedford, June 10-18, 1866, NBFL. and used the bay to the east of the island as an anchorage, which they called Ell Harbor,Benjamin Cummings, of New Bedford, May 21-23, 1869, NBFL. short for Othello Harbor,Josephine, of New Bedford, June 18, 1865, KWM #122C. named after a ship that utilized the harbor in the early 1860s.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. They anchored here to send whaleboats to the head of Gizhigin Bay to cruise for whalesOnward, 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. and as a shelter from southwest winds,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. to obtain wood, water, and stone for ballast,Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 17-21, 1867, ODHS #490A. to smoke ship to kill rats,Europa, of Edgartown, June 7, 1869, ODHS #303. and to trade rum with the natives for reindeer.Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, May 31, 1867, ODHS #768A. They also went ashore to gather berriesSea Breeze, of New Bedford, August 17, 1867, ODHS #768A. and shoot ducks.John and Winthrop, of San Francisco, May 27, 1902, NBFL.
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