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Port Wrangell

Port Wrangell

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extends NW from Cape Providence, on E coast of Alaska Peninsula, 35 mi. NE of Sutwik I., Aleutian Range

History of Port Wrangell

Surveyed in 1831 by Ensign Vasiliev and named for Admiral Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell, 1794-1870, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), Director Russian-American colonies. The name was published in 1835 as "B(aie) Wrangel" by Admiral A. J. von Krusenstern, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).