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	Otto von Kotzebue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto von Kotzebue (December 30, 1787 - February 15, 1846), was a Baltic German navigator in Russian service.
		The second son of August von Kotzebue, he was born at Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), then part of the Russian Empire.
		In 1823 Kotzebue, now a captain, was entrusted with the command of an expedition in two ships of war, the main object of which was to take reinforcements to Kamchatka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_von_Kotzebue (439 words)

	OTTO VON KOTZEBUE - LoveToKnow Article on OTTO VON KOTZEBUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After his promotion to lieutenant Kotzebue was placed in command of an expedition, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Rumantsoff, in the brig Rurick.
		There are English translations of both Kotzebues narratives: A Voyag~ of Discovery into the South Sea and Beerings Straits for the Purpose of exploring a North-East Passage, undertaken in the Years 1815-1818 (3 vols.
		Three years after his return from his second voyage, Kotzebue died at Reval on the 15th of February 1846.
	97.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KO/KOTZEBUE_OTTO_VON.htm (412 words)

	Kotzebue Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kotzebue Sound is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in western Alaska, 66°40' North 163° West.
		The towns of Kotzebue, Kiwalik and Deering are on the shores of Kotzebue Sound.
		Kotzebue Sound was explored and named in 1816 by Otto von Kotzebue while searching for the Northwest Passage in the service of Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kotzebue_Sound (152 words)

	Maniilaq Association \| Kotzebue
		Kotzebue lies on a 3-mile-long spit ranging in width from 1,100 to 3,600 feet located on the Baldwin Peninsula near the discharges of the Kobuk and Noatak Rivers.
		The population of Kotzebue is 3,082, 75 percent of which is Iñupiat Eskimos among whom subsistence activities are an integral part of the lifestyle.
		Kotzebue is the service and transportation center for the eleven villages in the Northwest Arctic Borough.
	www.maniilaq.org /kotzebue.html (1221 words)

	Alaska Division of Community Advocacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kotzebue is on the Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, on a 3-mile-long spit, which ranges in width from 1,100 to 3,600 feet.
		Kotzebue is located in the transitional climate zone, which is characterized by long, cold winters and cool summers.
		The residents of Kotzebue are primarily Inupiat Eskimos, and subsistence activities are an integral part of the lifestyle.
	www.dced.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CF_BLOCK.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Kotzebue&Data_Type=Overview (781 words)

	Kotzebue, Alaska - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kotzebue, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kotzebue gets its name from the Kotzebue Sound, which was named after Otto von Kotzebue, who explored the sound while searching for the Northwest Passage in the service of Russia in 1818.
		Kotzebue lies on a sand spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound.
		With the arrival of the whalers, traders, gold seekers, and missionaries the trading center expanded and acquired the name Kikiktagruk or Qikiqtagruk, which means "a place that is shaped like a long island," in Inupiaq, the language of the Inupiat, which is a reference to the spit.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Kotzebue-Alaska.html (698 words)

	Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 – May 1831) was an eminent botanist, physician and naturalist.
		Eschscholtz was a Baltic German; he was born and died in Tartu (then Dorpat) in what is now Estonia, studied medicine at the local University of Tartu, and spent his main career there as well: extraordinary professor of anatomy (1819), director of the zoological cabinet (1822), professor of anatomy 1828.
		Eschscholtz is famous for his participation in the two circumnavigations by the globe by Otto von Kotzebue, 1815 - 1818 and 1823 - 1826, where he was the ship's physician and one of the scientists.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Johann_Friedrich_von_Eschscholtz (197 words)

	Tour Alaska, Inc. - Kotzebue, Alaska
		Kotzebue is situated at the end of Baldwin Peninsula, a sandy spit which extends 3 miles into Kotzebue Sound.
		Today, Kotzebue is the commercial center and governmental seat for the Northwest Arctic Borough, encompassing 10 villages and over 42,000 square miles.
		Visitors are welcome to observe the thriving native culture by visiting the NANA Museum, strolling the town's main street where native fishing boats sit at the ready and rows of fish racks basking in the sun.
	www.touralaska.com /cities/kotzebue.htm (200 words)

	AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND VON KOTZEBUE - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND VON KOTZEBUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the death of his first wife Kotzebue retired from the Russian service, and lived for a time in Paris and Mainz; he then settled in 1795 Oh an estate which he had acquired near Reval and gave himself up to literary work.
		Kotzebue is to be seen to best advantage in his comedies, such as Der Wildfang, Die beiden Klingsberg and Die deutschen Kleinstdter, which contain admirable genre pictures of German life.
		Doring, A. von Kotzebues Leben (1830); W. von Kotzebue, A. von Kotzebue (1881); Ch.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KO/KOTZEBUE_AUGUST_FRIEDRICH_FERDINAND_VON.htm (888 words)

	KOTZEBUE ALASKA
		Kotzebue is located in Northwest Arctic County This settlement is located on the Bering Strait north of the Arctic Circle.
		Kotzebue is the hub of 11 NANA (Northwest Arctic Native Association) Region villages.
		Kotzebue with a population of approximately 3,500, is a central hub for the surrounding 25,000 square mile area that is home for an additional 4,000 Inupiat Eskimo in eleven villages.
	www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/fireside/793/my.world/kotzebue.html (1138 words)

	Otto von Kotzebue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Otto von Kotzebue (December 30, 1787 - February 15, 1846), was a Russian navigator.
		The second son of August von Kotzebue, he was born at Reval.
		On promotion to lieutenant, Kotzebue was placed in command of an expedition, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Romanzoff, in the brig Rurick.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/otto_von_kotzebue (475 words)

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		Governor Pablo Vicente Solá traveled from Monterey on October 16 to receive Kotzebue and the officers and scientists and, conversing in French, arrangements were made for supplies for Fort Ross, and for the release of Russian prisoners held for illegal hunting of sea otter in Spanish territory.
		Although Kuskov complained of Kotzebue’s interference in the affairs of the Russian-American Company, the expedition was considered a success and from 1823 to 1826 he commanded a second circumnavigation with Eschscholtz, again visiting San Francisco, from October 8 to December 6, 1824.
		The results of Kotzebue’s second circumnavigation were published in St. Petersburg in 1828, in Weimar, St. Petersburg, London, and Haarlem in 1830, in New York in 1967, and in Moscow in 1959 and 1987.
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	Kotzebue Alaska, Alaskan cities
		Kotzebue, with a population of about 3000, is the largest Eskimo community above the North American Arctic Circle.
		For hundreds of years Kotzebue, or Qikiqtagruk as it is called in Inupiaq, the Eskimo language of the area, has been the trading and gathering center for the entire area.
		This was later changed to Kotzebue in honor of Captain Otto Von Kotzebue, a Russian naval officer, who sailed into the Sound in 1816 on a round-the-world voyage in which he attempted to find a northwest passage.
	www.bellsalaska.com /kotzebue.html (651 words)

	Otto von Kotzebue Biography / Biography of Otto von Kotzebue Biography
		Otto von Kotzebue was born at Revel (Tallin), Estonia, on Dec. 30, 1787.
		He was the second son of the popular German dramatist and supposed agent of Czar Alexander I, August von Kotzebue, whose assassination on March 23, 1819, by the radical Karl Sand occasioned Metternich's reactionary Carlsbad Decrees.
		Kotzebue had by now risen to the rank of post captain in the imperial navy, and he was given a larger ship, the Predpriate, with a complement of 144 men, compared to 20 on the Rurick.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-otto-von-kotzebue (512 words)

	ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Adelbert von Chamisso (January_30 1781 – August_21 1838), was a German poet and botanist.
		In 1815, Chamisso was appointed botanist to the Russian ship ''Rurik'', which Otto_von_Kotzebue (son of August von Kotzebue) commanded on a scientific voyage round the world.
		As a scientist Chamisso left little mark, although his ''Bemerkungen und Ansichten'', published in an incomplete form in O. von Kotzebue's ''Entdeckungsreise'' (Weimar, 1821) and more completely in Chamisso's ''Gesammelte Werke'' (1836), and the botanical work, ''Ãbersicht der nutzbarsten und schÃ¤dlichsten GewÃ¤chse in Norddeutschland'' (1829) are esteemed for their careful treatment of their subjects.
	www.witwik.com /Adelbert_von_Chamisso (751 words)

	Search Results for "Kotzebue"
		Kotzebue, Otto von, (o´to von´ kot´zboo) (KEY), 1787-1846, Russian naval officer and explorer; son of A. von Kotzebue.
		Kotzebue, August von, (ou´goost fn kot´sboo) (KEY), 1761-1819, German dramatist and politician.
		...was done on Russian expeditions under Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1803) and Otto von Kotzebue (1815 and 1823).
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	Otto von Kotzebue -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The origin of ground ice was first studied in Siberia, and discussions in print of the origin of large ground-ice masses in perennially frozen ground of North America have gone on since Otto von Kotzebue recorded ground ice in 1816 at a spot now called Elephant's Point in Eschscholtz Bay of Seward Peninsula.
		Under the “iron chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck, Germany grew from a weak confederation of states to a powerful empire.
		German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher Otto von Guericke invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046147?tocId=9046147 (768 words)

	Visit Kotzebue
		Kotzebue is the largest village in the northwest region of Alaska.
		Kotzebue got its name from a German explorer named Otto Von Kotzebue, though the area had been occupied for 600 years as a fish camp and trading post prior to Von Kotzebue's "discovery" of the Kotzebue Sound in 1818 for Russia.
		Kotzebue sits on the coast of Kotzebue Sound on the west coast of Alaska.
	www.tour-arctic.com /lands.html (134 words)

	MavicaNET - Kotzebue, Otto von (1787—1846)
		Russian naval officer and explorer; son of A. von Kotzebue.
		He accompanied A. von Krusenstern on his circumnavigation (1803-6) and himself commanded two voyages around the world (1815-18, 1823-26).
		1787—1846, Russian naval officer and explorer; son of A. von Kotzebue.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/fra/35463.html (373 words)

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		The residents of Kotzebue are primarily Inupiaq Eskimos, and subsistence activities are an integral part of the lifestyle.
		Kotzebue is the service and transportation hub for all villages in the northwest region.
		Kotzebue is the transfer point between ocean and inland shipping for northwest Alaska.
	www.alaskacommercial.com /Cities/Kotzebue/Kotzebue.html (462 words)

	The Naming of Alaska - Explorers 'K' - ExploreNorth
		Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue, son of the distinguished author, and who had accompanied Krusenstern on the Neva in 1803-1806, was placed in command.
		Kotzebue was born at Revel on December 19, 1787, and died there on February 13, 1846.
		The winter, one of disappointment and failure, was spent in Japan, and on April 5, 1805, Krusenstern sailed away and, cruising northward along the Japanese coast and Kurile islands, arrived in Petropavlovsk in June.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/history/geodic-ak-1902-K.html (1038 words)

	Kotzebue PO
		The Kotzebue Probation Office is located in the Inupiat Village of Kotzebue 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
		Kotzebue is located 549 air miles northwest of Anchorage and 26 miles above the Arctic Circle on the Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, at the confluence of three river drainages.
		The German Lt. Otto Von Kotzebue 'discovered' Kotzebue Sound in 1818 for Russia, and the community was named after the Sound in 1899 when a post office was established.
	www.correct.state.ak.us /corrections/communitycorr/KotzebuePO.htm (412 words)

	www.ilovealaska.com/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Location: Kotzebue is on the Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, on a 3-mile-long spit, which ranges in width from 1,100 to 3,600 feet.
		Culture: The residents of Kotzebue are primarily Inupiat Eskimos, and subsistence activities are an integral part of the lifestyle.
		Climate: Kotzebue is located in the transitional climate zone, which is characterized by long, cold winters and cool summers.
	www.ilovealaska.com /alaska/cities.cfm?cityid=177 (742 words)

	Otto von Kotzebue
		Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846, Russian naval officer and explorer; son of A. von Kotzebue.
		He accompanied A. von Krusenstern on his circumnavigation (1803–6) and himself commanded two voyages around the world (1815–18, 1823–26).
		Kotzebue's own narratives were translated into English as
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0828169.html (119 words)

	History - HPO - Marshall Islands
		Jaluit was sighted by the Rolla in 1803 and again in 1809 by Captain Patterson of the British merchant brig Elizabeth, both of which landed and did some trading.
		The first scientific exploration of the Marshalls was conducted by a Russian, Otto von Kotzebue, in 1816-17 and 1824.
		Von Kotzebue and his crew spent several months in the Ratak Islands in 1817 and 1824, specifically Wotje, Maloelap, and Aur Atolls.
	www.alele.org /HP/history2.html (480 words)

	Otto von Kotzebue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KOTZEBUE, Otto von, Russian explorer, born in Revel, Russia, 30 December, 1787; died there, 15 February, 1846.
		Kotzebue also discovered several islands and bays and a sound northeast of Bering strait, which he called Kotzebue sound.
		He arrived in Russia, 23 July, 1818, and in 1823 was appointed by Alexander I. to command the "Predpriatic," and ordered to the west coast of North America to protect the Russian American company from the smuggling of foreign traders.
	www.famousamericans.net /ottovonkotzebue (379 words)

	California Academy of Sciences - Science Under Sail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev explored briefly on the Alaskan side in 1790 in the Norton Sound region, and Otto von Koztebue charted Kotzebue Sound in 1817.
		The 1817 voyage of Otto von Kotzebue to Alaska had introduced Russia and the West to Inupiat culture.
		Kotzebue's was a purely scientific voyage, commissioned by a wealthy patron of science, Count Nikolai Rumiansev.
	www.calacademy.org /exhibits/science_under_sail/people.html (1207 words)

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