Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel
Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1796-1870), Russian seafarer, admiral, Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society. He headed the Kolyma detachment of the expedition exploring the northern regions in 1820-1824. He wrote a description of the Siberian coast from the River Indigirka to the Koliuchenskaya Inlet together with his fellow travelers. He discovered an island in the Arctic Ocean from questionnaires and conversations with the local people. The island got his name later. He was the author of A Voyage Along the Northern Shores of Siberia and Across the Arctic Ocean (1841). A mountain and a cape in Alaska were also named after him.
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