Tretiy Island
| Tretiy Island Остров Третий | |
|---|---|
| Island | |
  Tretiy Island | |
| Coordinates: 61°34′N 162°34′E / 61.567°N 162.567°E | |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Federal subject | Kamchatka Krai |
Tretiy Island or Treti Island (Остров Третий; Ostrov Tretiy, 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.[1][2][3]
Geography
Tretiy 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 Tretiy, in the sound that separates it from the mainland shore, lies an islet only 700 m long and 400 m wide.
- Vtoroy 61°28′N 163°00′E / 61.467°N 163.000°E and Krayniy (Остров Крайний) 61°27′N 163°00′E / 61.450°N 163.000°E, or Chemenvytegartynup (Чеменвытегартынуп), a group of two smaller islands, lies about 30 km to the southeast of Tretiy. Krayniy is the larger of the two and they are separated from each other by a 1.7 km wide sound.
Administratively Tretiy Island belongs to the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation.
