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Show Found Wrangsl Island In 1867. The first authentic account concerning concern-ing Wrangel Island, which has been attracting so much International Interest, Inter-est, was from Captain Long, master of the American whaling barque Nile, who In the summer of 1807 on a whaling whal-ing voyage, named this land Wrangel land, after Raron Wrangel and two of the headlands he named after one of his crew named Thomas, this man being the first to see the Island. The promontory Hawaii he named after the island, where In winter, In the harbor of Honolulu, the whalers made their rendezvous there to outfit out-fit for another season. These names are today on the charts of Wrangel Island. Aug. 12, 1881, Capt. Calvin Cooper, commanding the United States revenue steamship Corwln, landed and took possession of Wrangel land in the name of the United Elates of America. |