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	Wrangell, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrangell is one of the oldest non-Native settlements in Alaska.
		In 1834, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, then head of Russian government interests in Russian America, ordered a stockade built near the Tlingit Kiks.ádi clan house of Chief Shakes that was located about 13 miles (20 km) north of the large Tlingit village of Kotzlitzna.
		Wrangell is also a stop on the daily run of the Inter-Island Ferry Authority's M/V Stikine in its run that originates in Coffman Cove on Prince of Wales Island, continues on to Wrangell, then Petersburg, and then returns making the same stops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrangell,_Alaska (1189 words)

	Ferdinand von Wrangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baron Ferdinand von Wrangell (Russian: Фердина́нд Петро́вич Вра́нгель, Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel; December 29, 1796 (January 9, 1797), Pskov, Russia—May 25 (June 6), 1870, Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia)) was a Russian admiral, explorer, Honorable Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. etersburg (1855), one of the founders of the Russian Geographic Society.
		Ferdinand von Wrangell was born into a Baltic German noble family of Wrangell.
		Wrangell, Alaska, a city on Wrangell Island and one of the oldest non-native settlements in Alaska
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_von_Wrangel (493 words)

	Wrangell Island
		Wrangel Island (Russian: Остров Врангеля ''Ostrov Vrangelya'') is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas, and belonging to the Russian Federation.
		Wrangell Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska.
		Wrangel, Herman Wrangel, Herman Wrangel, Herman Wrangel, Herman Wrangel, Herman et:Hermann von Wrangel sv:Herman Wrangel
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wrangel, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von WRANGEL, BARON FERDINAND PETROVICH VON [Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von], 1796-1870, Russian naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator.
		Wrangel, Friedrich Heinrich Ernst, Graf von WRANGEL, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST, GRAF VON [Wrangel, Friedrich Heinrich Ernst, Graf von], 1784-1877, Prussian field marshal.
		Wrangell Island WRANGELL ISLAND [Wrangell Island], 30 mi (48 km) long and 5 to 14 mi (8.1-22.5 km) wide, off SE Alaska in the Alexander Archipelago, south of the mouth of the Stikine River.
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	Wrangell City Cruiseship Port, Wrangell Inside Passage Alaska Tourist Information / History
		Wrangell is older than its neighbor, Petersburg, with a history that weaves together threads of the ancient Tlingit culture and the cultures of three world powers-Russia, Britain, and the United States-who have occupied the region in more recent times.
		Although Wrangell was founded by Russian traders in the early 1800s, the Tlingits long dominated the region.
		The Wrangell Museum holds four of his totem poles, thought to be the oldest Tlingit house posts in existence.
	www.alaskacruisefares.com /info/port/wrangell.html (609 words)

	Wrangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
		Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, Imperial Russian Navy admiral, Arctic explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
		Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrangel (175 words)

	State gives away the store again - Wrangel Island, Alaska National Review - Find Articles
		It is Wrangel Island, located north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean, and it is the only piece of American territory ever successfully seized by a foreign power--although that seizure has not been recognized until now.
		The U.S. lost Wrangel on August 20, 1924, when the Soviet gunboat Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) seized the island, captured 14 American fur trappers (two of whom died in captivity), and raised the red flag.
		Wrangel, located about 270 miles northwest of Alaska, was discovered in 1881 by Calvin Leighton Hooper, a captain of the U.S. Revenue Marine (Coast Guard) and acting governor of Alaska, cruising aboard the cutter Thomas Corwin.
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	Wrangel Island: UNESCO, polar bears, walrus, icebreaker
		After a couple of abortive attempts at settlement and protracted diplomatic argument, Wrangel Island is now occupied by a small team of Russian scientists and their supporting community who maintain a meteorological and research base at Ushakovskoye on the Southern coast.
		A good part of the reason Wrangel Island was chosen for this extreme survival exercise is the abundance of wildlife.
		Ironically, Wrangel Island also escaped glaciation in the last Ice Age, leaving several unique species of vascular plants and was probably the last place on Earth to support a woolly mammoth population.
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	Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		WRANGEL, BARON FERDINAND PETROVICH VON [Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von], 1796-1870, Russian naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator.
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	Take Back Our Land -- Let's Take Back Oil-Rich Aalskan Territory Illegally Given Away to Russia !!! [Free Republic]
		Wrangell Island was discovered during the voyage of Captain Thomas Long, a citizen of the United States, aboard the barque "Nile" in 1867.
		I claim that Wrangell Island is originally the property of the United States through right of discovery, but it is a principle of international law that claims arising out of the discovery must be followed up within any reasonable time by exploration or occupancy or else it lapses into the territory of a no-man's island.
		Wrangell Island, the largest of the five with an area of 2,800 square miles (the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined), was discovered and claimed on August 12, 1881, by Captain Calvin Leighton Hooper aboard the U.S. Revenue Marine (Coast Guard) ship Thomas Corwin.
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	Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel
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		Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell - Wrangell, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von: see Wrangel, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von.
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	Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich, Baron von - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich, Baron von (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Russian vice admiral and Arctic explorer, after whom Wrangel Island (Ostrov Vrangelya) in the Soviet Arctic is named.
		Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve
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	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Wrangel,+Ferdinand+Petrovich,+Baron+von (93 words)

	Wrangell Alaska Visitor Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 2,308.Its Tlingit name is Khaachxhaana.áak'w, and the Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area call themselves the Khaachxhaana.áak'w Khwáan, or alternately the Shtax'héen Khwáan after the nearby Stikine River.
		Wrangell is located at 56°27'23" North, 132°22'40" West (56.456383, -132.377755)GR1.
		According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 183.5 km2 (70.8 mi2).
	www.south-east-alaska.com /Wrangell.html (1009 words)

	World Adventurer \| Wrangel Island: isolation, desolation and tragedy
		Their ever-controversial leader had abandoned them in September 1913, leaving them for dead aboard their ship, the CAE Karluk, stuck fast in the ice pack.
		That’s exactly what the UNESCO World Heritage committee did in 2004 when it included Wrangel Island on its list of global ecological hotspots, describing it as a “self-contained island ecosystem” with “the highest level of biodiversity in the high Arctic”.
		Naturalists, ecologists, archaeologists, “twitchers” and regular tourists in search of the unusual are now part of the minor throng that venture north every year from Anadyr in the helicopter-equipped Khlebnikov.
	worldadventurer.net /issue1/wrangel.html (804 words)

	akreport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		When he left in 1818, he was 71 years old and ill. He had been asking repeatedly to be relieved.
		Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel's time as Chief Manager of Alaska was from 1830-1835.
		When Wrangel went on an inspection tour one summer, he served as the commander for the Sitka Port.
	www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us /Portfolios/carleem/academic/akreport.html (794 words)

	AllRefer.com - Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
		fyerdyEnAnt´ pEtrO´vich vOn vrAn´gil] Pronunciation Key, 1796–1870, Russian naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator.
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	Khabarovsk
		They also influenced cultural life : houses were build in US Pacific style, an English newspaper was published and English was the current language in the area, not only between traders and natives, but also between Russian local officials and natives.
		(4) Wrangel Island Linked to Chukotka is the Arctic island Wrangel (and its dependency Gerald or Herald) The uninhabited island Wrangel was discovered in 1867 by the US Captain Thomas Long and named for the Russian Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1797— 1870) who made an expedition in the area ca 1820.
		His plans ended in Oct 1924 when Soviet security forces occupied Wrangel, expelled its inhabitants and later replaced them with Eskimo from Chukotka.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Khabarovsk.html (3253 words)

	Contexts -- Geography -- Northern Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Catherine hired Joseph Billings, a member of Cook's crew, to travel overland from St. Lawrence Bay to Nizhnekolymsk in the search for a gap between Chaun Bay and the Bering Strait.
		The gap was not discovered, however, until 1823, when Lieutenant Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel successfully navigated and surveyed Kolyuchin Bay.
		Only five years after Columbus discovered the Americas, England's Henry VII sent John Cabot in search of a northwest route from Europe to the Orient.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Contexts/passage.html (1012 words)

	How did Wrangell-St. Elias get its name?
		The park is named after the Wrangell and
		were named after Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (1796-1870), who was a Russian Navel officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator.
		Henry T. Allen was the one to actually name the Wrangell Mountains in his exploration of the
	www.nps.gov /wrst/parkname.htm (169 words)

	Polar Expeditions in Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		La mer libre du pole [microform] : voyage de decouvertes dans les mers arctiques execute en 1860-1861 / par J.J (i.e.
		I.I.) Hayes ; traduit de l'anglais et accompagne de notes complementaires par Ferdinand de Lanoye.
		The open Polar Sea: a narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States".
	www.lib.washington.edu /fish/subjects/polarexpeditions.html (11309 words)

	Polar Exploration in the Romantic Era
		These explorers included: Nikita Shalaurov; Captain James Cook; and Joseph Billings.
		The actual Northeast Passage was not discovered until 1823, when Lieutenant Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel successfully navigated and surveyed the Kolyuchin Bay, the missing link between Chaun Bay and the Bering Strait.
		Navigators began seriously searching for a water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the sixteenth century with Sir Martin Frobisher.
	www.math.grin.edu /~simpsone/Teaching/Romantics/dina.html (760 words)

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