Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich (Врангель, Фердинанд Петрович in Russian) (12.29.1796 (1.9.1797), Pskov, Russia — 5.25 (6.6).1870, Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia)), Baltic German navigator, admiral, Honorable Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St.Petersburg (1855), one of the founders of the Russian Geographic Society. In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, which more closely represents its pronunciation. The Wrangell Island is named after him. 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 10-ruble Russian coin of 2003 in the Ancient cities of Russia series - commemorating Pskov Pskov (Псков, ancient spelling Пльсковъ, also Pihkva (Estonian), Pleskau (German) and Psków (Polish)) is an ancient Russian city, located in the north-west of Russia near the present-day border with Estonia, on the river... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German, Polish Dorpat, Russian Юpьeв Yuryev) is the second largest city of Estonia, with its population of 101,246 (the Population Census data is from 2000) in an area of 38. ... The Baltic Germans (German: Baltendeutsche, Balten, and Deutschbalten), were ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea which forms today the countries of Estonia and Latvia. ... For the WWW browsers of the same name, see Netscape Navigator and Mozilla. ... Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (Lord of the bay). ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Wrangell Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska. ...

Wrangel graduated from the Naval College in 1815. He took part in Vasily Golovnin's world cruise on the ship "Kamchatka" in 1817-1819. Wrangel led the Kolymskaya expedition in search of northern lands. He established that north of the Kolyma River and Cape Shelagsky there was an open sea, not dry land, as people thought. Together with Fyodor Matyushkin and P.Kuzmin, Wrangel described the Siberian coastline from the Indigirka River to the Kolyuchinskaya Bay. After questioning native population, he determined that there was an island in the Arctic Ocean, that would later be called after Wrangel. His expedition made a valuable research in glaciology, geomagnetics, and climatology and also collected data about natural resources and native population of that remote area. Wrangel led the Russian world cruise on the ship "Krotky" in 1825-1827. He held a post of the chief administrator of the Russian settlements in North America in 1829-1835. Wrangel was the president of the Russian-American Company in 1840-1849. He also was the Minister of the Navy in 1855-1857. 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Vasily (Vassili) Mikhailovich Golovnin (Головнин, Василий Михайлович in Russian) (4. ... To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Kolyma River (Колыма́) is a river in Russia that empties into the East Siberian Sea. ... Fyodor Fyodorovich Matyushkin (Матюшкин, Федор Федорович in Russian) (7. ... Siberian federal subjects of Russia Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь, common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting all of northern Asia. ... The Indigirka River (Индигирка in Russian), a river in Sakha in Russia. ... Glaciology is the study of glaciers, or more generally the study of ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. ... The cause of Earths magnetic field (the surface magnetic field) is not known for certain, but is possibly explained by dynamo theory. ... Climatology is the science that studies climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A reference to colonization, or the resulting communities. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Russian-American Company was a semi-official colonial trading company chartered by tsar Paul I in 1799. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Wrangel retired in 1864. He was opposed to selling Alaska to the United States. An island in the Arctic Ocean, a mountain, and a cape in Alaska bear his name. Wrangel wrote a book "Journey along the northern coastline of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean" and a few other books about the people of the northwestern America. 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ...