Glinyanyy Island

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]