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Wrangell, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1094 words) |
 | It is across the narrow Zimovia Strait from the mouth of the Stikine River on the Alaska mainland. |
| The town is named after the island, which was named after Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, a Russian explorer and the administrator of the Russian-American Company from 1840 to 1849. |
| Fish traps were constructed in the late 1890s on the nearby mouth of the Stikine River and in the Zimovia Straits. |
| NOAA Ship RAINIER - Recent Projects (634 words) |
| OPR-O327 Northern Clarence Strait and Zimovia Strait, AK The purpose of this project is to provide contemporary hydrography with full bottom multibeam coverage in Northern Clarence Straight, Alaska. |
| The project addresses inadequate chart data and responds to requests from the Seventeenth U.S. Coast Guard District, Southeast Alaska Pilots Association, and the Alaska Coastwise Pilots Association for contemporary hydrography in the vicinity of Zimovia Strait. |
| Zimovia Strait is a connecting corridor for cruise ships and other commercial shipping traffic in Southeast Alaska and serves as an alternate route for vessel thoroughfare through Snow Passage. |
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