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136-790: A transliteration from Russian , which more closely represents its pronunciation in German , or Wrangell . Wrangel was born in Pskov , into the Baltic German nobility of the Wrangel family and was a distant nephew of Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich von Wrangel . He graduated from the Naval Cadets College in 1815. He participated in Vasily Golovnin 's world cruise on the ship Kamchatka in 1817–1819 and belonged to

204-693: A Division of Searhc. In 1943 the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissioned artist Austin Mecklem and his wife, Marianne Greer Appel, to paint a mural, Old Town in Alaska , intended for the Wrangell post office. The work was completed at their studio in New York state, transported via railway on October 19, 1943, arrived in Wrangell in December 1943 and installed in early 1944. In print since 1902,

272-431: A Pharmacy Department. As a federally qualified health center, all of the services are provided on a sliding fee discount scale based on federal guidelines. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is a non-profit medical, dental, vision and mental health organization serving the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. In 2017 SEARHC merged with local non-profit Alaska Island Community Services to form AICS,

340-413: A compass, failed to do that which these savages easily effected. Yet no one will suppose that they possessed any special sense which is quite absent in us. We must bear in mind that neither a compass, nor the north star, nor any other such sign, suffices to guide a man to a particular spot through an intricate country, or through hummocky ice, when many deviations from a straight course are inevitable, unless

408-407: A decline in salmon runs and fishing in the region. After statehood, the new government decommissioned all fish traps in Alaska. The fishing industry remained strong, and continues to be the primary occupation of many residents. The weekly newspaper , The Wrangell Sentinel was founded in 1902 and printed its first issue on November 2 of the same year. The newspaper remains in publication with only

476-416: A few short periods of inactivity. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Alaska. The renowned Bear Totem Store, built in the 1920s by Walter Waters, housed innumerable examples of Tlingit arts and crafts, as well as a number of irreplaceable totem poles . Waters began his business career carrying mail by boat from Wrangell to Sulzer. During this period, he traveled throughout southeast Alaska as

544-475: A fur buyer. While on business travels, Waters began to acquire Indian artifacts and make valuable contacts with Indian artisans. He eventually enabled him to open his curio shop, The Bear Totem Store. A severe fire in the early 1950s burned much of the downtown area, destroying the Bear Totem Store and most of its contents. Few historic buildings remained after the fire. The disaster dramatically changed

612-531: A mile and a half south on Isheyami Drive to allow a concrete production facility to power up (they bring in sand via barge from the Stikine River). Voters in Wrangell lean strongly Republican , having elected a Democrat only once, in 1964. Wrangell has accurately reflected the choice of Alaska's statewide presidential election winner in every election since the state's admission to the union in 1960. Wrangell first appeared as an unincorporated village on

680-563: A mountain, mountain range, or peak in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell ( Tlingit : Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw , Russian : Врангель , romanized :  Vrangel' ) is a borough in Alaska , United States . As of the 2020 census the population was 2,127, down from 2,369 in 2010. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell

748-439: A separate 163 individuals living in the unincorporated areas surrounding Wrangell. The combined number of 1,325 would've placed it just ahead of 7th place Petersburg (with 1,323 residents). Beginning in 1950, Wrangell fell out of the list of top 10 largest communities in Alaska. In 2008, Wrangell became a separate city & borough. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,308 people, 907 households, and 623 families living in

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816-604: A share with the forest service, postal service and homeland security operations expenditures. The southernmost terminus of the vast Juneau Icefield is just north of the Stikine with several glaciers flowing down to the river and saltwater at LeConte Bay . Though the number of Chinook salmon has been devastated by commercial over-harvesting recently and the fishery was largely closed in spring 2018, hope for its recovery abounds since fisheries have crashed in S.E. Alaska recurrently over history and recovered. Whales live seasonally in

884-586: A society to assist Estonian and Latvian schools in 1992. They also began to assist Estonian legal professionals to transition to the European legal system by creating Forum Academicum in Roela . 29th Dec. 1996 with old calendar and 1997 January by new calendar , Ferdinand von Wrangel's 200th birthday was celebrated with scientific conferences, a pipe organ concert and exhibitions in the University of Tartu ,

952-601: A survey of the country, opened roads, built bridges and government buildings. He made geographical and ethnographical observations, which he embodied in a memoir to the navy department. Recalled in 1834, he returned by way of Mexico and the United States, where he visited several cities. Wrangel was promoted to rear admiral in 1837, and made director of the ship-timber department in the navy office, which he held for twelve years. He became vice-admiral in 1847, but resigned in 1849, and temporarily severed his connection with

1020-630: A terminal with a ferry dock near the Stikine Inn. In the back of a restaurant downtown there is a marijuana sales business. Wrangell's seafood processing plant, though small and consuming much of the city's water supply seasonally, employs workers from Mexico , Russia, and Somalia . Wrangell has several churches and bars and a pizza store though no citywide free wireless internet for tourists or business travelers yet. The local Native Corporation—the Sealaska Corporation , contributes to

1088-484: A young man who was their interpreter in Chinook Jargon and English . The oldest Catholic Church in Alaska; St. Rose of Lima, was established at Wrangell May 4, 1879. Having been Tlingit territory and then under the jurisdiction of Russia , Great Britain , and the United States, Wrangell has the unique status as the only Alaskan city to have been governed under four "flags". Fish traps were constructed in

1156-526: Is currently constructing a new hospital that will be opened in 2021. Alaska Island Community Services was established in Wrangell in 1989 under the original name Wrangell Community Services, and began providing Core Mental Health Services to the Community of Wrangell. Over the next two decades the delivery of services expanded to include Disability and Senior Services, rehabilitative wilderness experience for youth, Primary Care Health Care, Dental Services, and

1224-598: Is in Viru-Jaagupi cemetery. An account of the physical observations during his first journey was published in German (Berlin, 1827), and also in German extracts from Wrangel's journals, Reise längs der Nordküste von Sibirien und auf dem Eismeere in den Jahren 1820-1824 (2 vols., Berlin, 1839), which was translated into English as Wrangell's Expedition to the Polar Sea (2 vols., London, 1840). The complete report of

1292-488: Is known as "Old Town" or "Old Wrangell" (located at 56°12′28″N 132°16′22″W  /  56.20778°N 132.27278°W  / 56.20778; -132.27278 ). Ḵaachx̱án was supposedly a hermit who preferred living away from his relatives, and thus lived in a smokehouse located on the rear shore of the lake named after him. Wrangell was founded by Russians as one of the oldest non-Native settlements in Alaska. They started trading for furs with area Tlingit in 1811 at

1360-454: The Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine River . Alternately they use the autonym Shxʼát Ḵwáan , where the meaning of shxʼát is unknown. The central (urban) part of Wrangell is located at 56°28′15″N 132°22′36″W  /  56.47083°N 132.37667°W  / 56.47083; -132.37667 , in the northwest corner of Wrangell Island . The borough also encompasses

1428-631: The Kayaashkiditaan , Sʼiknax̱.ádi , X̱ookʼeidí , Kaasx̱ʼagweidí , and Taalḵweidí clans. Chief Shakes Tribal House, which is known in Tlingit as Shéiksh Hídi "Shakes House", is a replica of traditional Tlingit houses. It was constructed by CCC crews in the 1930s of the Great Depression, according to traditional knowledge and methods. It stands at the original location of Shakes House, on Shakes Island inside Wrangell harbor. Today

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1496-596: The Klondike in 1897. The Wrangell Bombardment occurred on December 25, 1869, when a Stikine Indian named Lowan bit off Mrs. Jaboc Muller's third right finger and was killed in an ensuing fight by soldiers who mortally wounded an additional Stikine Indian. The following morning, Scutd-doo, who was the father of the deceased, entered the fort and shot the post trader's partner Leon Smith fourteen times. Smith died about 13 hours later. The US army made an ultimatum demanding Sccutd-doo's surrender, and following bombardment of

1564-775: The Siberian coastline from the Indigirka River to the Kolyuchinskaya Bay in the Chukchi Sea . (See Northeast Passage .) 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. Having been promoted to commander, Wrangel led the Russian world voyage on the ship Krotky in 1825–1827. That voyage spent 8 days at Nuku Hiva, leaving when it

1632-603: The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium . The Wrangell Medical Center is a critical access hospital and long-term care facility with a total of 22 beds, 8 for acute care and 14 for long-term care. Emergency care, inpatient care, imaging, lab, and physical therapy are provided by the center. Visiting specialists in internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, optometry, pediatrics, ophthalmology, podiatry, orthopedics, rheumatology, dietetics and dermatology complement local services. SEARHC

1700-656: The Wrangell Cooperative Association , a Tlingit IRA council and the federally recognized tribe for the area, maintains Shakes Island and the House, as well as Totem Park near the city center. In an election held on May 6, 2008, to decide whether to upgrade from city to borough status, 63.99% of the votes were in favor of borough status. On May 30, 2008, Wrangell was reincorporated as the City and Borough of Wrangell. Canadian American Donald McConachie Sr.

1768-456: The 1880 U.S. Census. There were 106 residents, of which 105 were White and 1 was Creole (Mixed Russian & Native). In 1890, it counted 316 residents of which a majority, 228, were Native, 71 were White, 15 Creole, 1 Asian and 1 Other. That count included the Chantay farming settlement & Labouchere Cannery. In 1900, it became the 5th largest community in Alaska with 868 residents (though

1836-555: The English translation of the Expedition to North Siberia, by Von Wrangell. He there describes the wonderful manner in which the natives kept a true course towards a particular spot, whilst passing for a long distance through hummocky ice, with incessant changes of direction, and with no guide in the heavens or on the frozen sea. He states (but I quote only from memory of many years standing) that he, an experienced surveyor, and using

1904-477: The Stikine Indian village, the villagers handed Scutd-doo over to the military in the fort, where he was court-martialed and publicly hanged before the garrison and assembled natives on December 29, stating before he was hanged that he had acted in revenge against the occupants of the fort for the killing of Lowan and not against Smith in particular. In 1877, the first Presbyterian church in Alaska,

1972-533: The Stikine River during a time when the river still flowed underneath glaciers. The population slowly moved down the river, settling in different locations such as Tlákw.aan "Ancient Village", Sʼiknáx̱ "Across from the Grass", Shaal.aan "Fish Trap Town", Xakw.aan "Sandbar Village", and Kayáash "Platform", Hehl (Xel/Xehl) "Foam People", Hehl being the senior of house of the village. Later settlements on

2040-407: The Tlingit population in the area by half, as they had no acquired immunity , and silenced most of the protest. The HBC abandoned the fort in 1849 after the area's stocks of sea otter and beaver were depleted, thus ending the fur trade. Fort Stikine remained under British rule until Alaska's purchase by the United States in 1867. In 1868, the U.S. built a military post called Fort Wrangell at

2108-629: The United States in 1867. Wrangel wrote the book Journey along the northern coastline of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean and other books about the peoples of northwestern America. He lived in his last years in Ruil ( Roela in Estonian) in the eastern part of Estonia . The manor was bought by him in 1840 and he gave it to his wife as a gift. Wrangel died in Dorpat , Livonia . His final resting place

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2176-516: The administrator of the Russian-American Company from 1830 to 1835. Per the 2010 United States Census , the borough has a total area of 3,462 square miles (8,970 km ), of which 2,541 square miles (6,580 km ) is land and 921 square miles (2,390 km ) is water. The former City of Wrangell, as of the 2000 census , had a total area of 70.844 square miles (183.5 km ), of which 45.278 square miles (117.27 km )

2244-419: The age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.3% were non-families. 26.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.05. In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.4% under

2312-462: The age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 26.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.7 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 43,250, and the median income for a family was $ 54,167. Males had a median income of $ 43,846 versus $ 29,205 for females. The per capita income for

2380-412: The beaches of the many islands in the vicinity, attest to the long Tlingit presence. It is known that the first peoples' coastal migration to the Stikine River came from the south. The Nass River people had several migrations into the area. The "Git Setti" people tell of their migration story in a totem raised in Wrangell in 1894 called "Kickssetti" Totem. The saltwater inlet now known as Wrangell Harbor

2448-399: The city was $ 21,851. About 7.3% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.0% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over. Wrangell is a part of Wrangell Public Schools , which operates: The Wrangell Institute was an American Indian boarding school opened in 1932, which closed in 1975. The Wrangell Medical Center hospital is owned by

2516-491: The city. The population density was 51.0 inhabitants per square mile (19.7/km ). There were 1,092 housing units at an average density of 24.1 per square mile (9.3/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 1696 White , 3 Black or African American , 358 Native American , 15 Asian , 3 Pacific Islander , 8 from other races , and 9.8% from two or more races. 23 of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 907 households, out of which 35.7% had children under

2584-536: The coast included Chʼuxʼáasʼaan "Waterfall Town" (now Mill Creek), Ḵeishangita.aan "Red Alder Head Village" (site of the Wrangell Institute at Shoemaker Bay), Kʼaatsʼḵu Noow "Among the Sharps Fort" (now Anita Bay), An.áan "Village that Rests" (now Anan Bear Viewing Area), and many others. The numerous petroglyphs found at Petroglyph Beach just north of Wrangell, as well as those scattered on

2652-552: The cohort of Baltic-German navigators who were instrumental in Imperial Russia's maritime explorations. He was appointed in 1820 to command the Kolymskaya expedition to explore the Russian polar seas. Sailing from St. Petersburg , he arrived at Nizhnekolymsk on 2 November 1820, and early in 1821 journeyed to Cape Shelagskiy on sledges drawn by dogs. He sailed afterward up Kolyma River , advancing about 125 miles into

2720-529: The cost of local health care provisioning. Bonnie Demerjian, Garrison Gibson, and other writers live in the city. It has guided kayak tours in summer and some of the most accessible coastal forest wilderness hiking, camping and climbing of S.E. Alaska. It is possible to follow the historic route in kayaks to the Stikine River Delta where the orphan warrior Chief Gush X'een and his band of Tlingits defeated boatloads of invading Nisga'a warriors from

2788-582: The deviations are allowed for, or a sort of "dead reckoning" is kept. Wrangel also published: Wrangel's descendants Peter-Friedrich Krienitz ja Hermann von Wrangell, from Germany , did visit first time Ferdinand von Wrangel last home in Roela and grave first time in 1990. After the Estonian Restoration of Independence in 1991, they together created the Fondation von Wrangell on his behalf -

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2856-489: The entire eastern half of the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, in addition to the area around Meyers Chuck , which was formerly in the Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area . It includes Thoms Place , a former census-designated place on Wrangell Island. Tlingit people and their ancestors have inhabited this island for thousands of years. According to Naanyaa.aayí clan traditions, Tlingit people migrated down

2924-460: The expedition appeared as "Puteshestvie po severnym beregam Sibiri, po Ledovitomu Moryu, sovershennoe v 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823 i 1824 godakh" (2 vols., St. Petersburg, 1841), and was translated into French with notes by Prince Galitzin, under the title Voyage sur les côtes septentrionales de la Sibérie et de la mer glaciale (2 vols., 1841). From the French version of the complete report an English one

2992-618: The face of Wrangell, and with new buildings the past was lost. Logging, fishing and tourism are the current mainstays of the Wrangell area economy. One of the last two major sawmills in Southeast Alaska is operated by the Silver Bay Logging Company just south of the city proper. The community has always been a center of the Tlingit Kaach.àdi , Kiks.ádi and Naanyaa.aayí clans and the only home of

3060-559: The first Protestant church of any kind in the area, was founded near its current location at 220 Church Street. Reverend S. Hall Young , a colleague of Sheldon Jackson , was assigned to the Wrangell mission and arrived on July 10, 1878. He worked among both miners and Tlingits. He established the Fort Wrangell Tlingit Industrial School to teach young Tlingit men various American trades, such as printing, boatbuilding, and construction. This institution

3128-410: The great Stikine River branching eastward into British Columbia . Boatyards have increased in scale allowing storage and repairs of larger vessels. The city has a picturesque golf course with a view of Mount Wrangell . Like many S.E. Alaskan communities state government spending is important to the local economy, though not to the extent of Juneau -the state capitol. The Federal government also kicks in

3196-572: The interior, through territory inhabited by the Yakuts . On 10 March 1822, he resumed his journey northward, and traveled 46 days on the ice, reaching 72° 2' north latitude. He left Nizhnekolymsk on 1 November 1823, and returned to St. Petersburg on 15 August 1824. 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

3264-526: The late 1890s on the nearby mouth of the Stikine River and in the Zimovia Strait . These contributed to the growth of the fishing and fish canning industries in Wrangell, which provided much of the economic life for the town before the rise of logging in the 1950s. The fish traps caused severe damage to the Stikine River salmon runs, reducing the number of fish that managed to spawn and causing

3332-593: The navy to assume the presidency of the newly reorganized Russian-American Company. Wrangel had been a member of the board of directors of the Russian-American Company from 1840 to 1849. In 1854 he re-entered active service and was made chief director of the hydrographical department of the navy He was the Minister of the Navy 1855–1857. Wrangel retired in 1864. He opposed the sale of Alaska to

3400-723: The newspaper for the borough is The Wrangell Sentinel , the oldest continuously published newspaper in Alaska. The Petersburg Pilot, published in Petersburg is also for sale in town, along with the Juneau Empire and the Alaska Dispatch online. Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel ( Russian : Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель , tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' ; 9 January 1797 [ O.S. 29 December 1796] – 6 June [ O.S. 25 May] 1870)

3468-415: The racial breakdown was unspecified). In 1903, Wrangell formally incorporated. In 1910, it fell to 10th largest city in Alaska and returned 743 residents, with 419 Whites, 249 Natives and 75 Others. In 1920, it had 821 residents and remained the 10th largest city. In 1930, it was the 9th largest city with 948 residents. In 1940, it rose to 8th place. In addition to the 1,162 residents, the census also reported

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3536-740: The region, though helicopter journeys to high mountain glaciers need to be scheduled from Ketchikan to the south 100 miles (Ketchikan is from the Tlingit word Kootchikan meaning place of stinky fish). Baron Von Wrangell sent Lieutenant Dionysius Zarembo to establish a trading post on Stikine Strait in 1833 to beat the Brits. Tlingits apparently were receptive to British and Russian traders. Today nearby Zarembo Island has an elk and moose population visited by hunting guides and parties from Wrangell. Alaska Airlines has twice daily service to Seattle as well as Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka , and other southeastern destinations. The Alaska Marine Highway system has

3604-577: The site of present-day Wrangell. In 1834, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel , then head of Russian government interests in Russian America , ordered a stockade built near the Naanyaa.aayí clan house of Chief Shakes , called Shéiksh Hídi . This house was located about 13 miles (21 km) north of Old Wrangell, on a small island in the middle of what is today Wrangell Harbor. The stockade, named Redoubt Saint Dionysius ( Редутъ Санктъ Дионисіусъ ),

3672-543: The site, and it remained active until 1877. The community around the post continued to grow through commerce with prospectors in the gold rushes of 1861, 1874–77, and 1897. As in Skagway , businessmen looking to make money off the miners built many gambling halls, dance halls, and bars. Thousands of miners traveled up the Stikine River into the Cassiar District of British Columbia during 1874, and again to

3740-497: The south. Rather than becoming a slave the defeated Nisga'a Chief surrendered his hat and title of Shakes to Gush X'een. The former mill site of the Alaska Pulp Corporation that was dismantled has some use sending logs and boulders via ships and a prospect for development as a cruise ship site with multipurpose western theme shops and dark ale brewery for export. The city has expanded its electrical power lines

3808-607: The southernmost; Shoemaker Bay, is undergoing renewal construction in September 2018. A Tlingit cultural center and museum is located on the waterfront of Wrangell. In order to keep a small-town rural aesthetic, the city turned down the prospect of building a state prison and home-porting a naval vessel. The Stikine Inn was remodeled to fine shape, and an inter-island ferry business was established with service to Prince of Wales Island . Sunrise Aviation, an air work and tourism float plane service, continues to provide service anywhere in

3876-538: The traditional adze tool. Wrangell is located on the northern tip of Wrangell Island , an island in the Alaska Panhandle . It is 155 miles (250 km) south of the Alaskan capital of Juneau . 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

3944-477: The waters of the Alexander Archipelago and visit Wrangell searching for herring and salmon creating good photo opportunities. The former vast Alaska Pulp Corporation logging operations at Wrangell closed down in the mid-1990s unable to meet water quality standards though cutting hundreds of millions of board feet of lumber annually. Wrangell has three marinas on the northwest side of the island and

4012-633: Was a Russia German ( Baltic German ) explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy , Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences , and a founder of the Russian Geographic Society . He is best known as the chief manager of the Russian-American Company and governor of the Russian settlements in present-day Alaska . In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel ,

4080-706: Was a parallel to Sheldon Jackson's Sitka Industrial Training School, which became Sheldon Jackson College . Young's school was the nucleus of the later Wrangell Institute , a boarding school for Alaska Natives through the mid-20th century. S. Hall Young was a friend and companion of the naturalist John Muir , who lived in Wrangell in 1879–1880. Muir and Young traveled up the Stikine River, as well as to Kake , Glacier Bay , and elsewhere in Southeast Alaska . Young and Muir were accompanied by two Stikine elite men, Tʼaawyaat ("Toyatte", lit. Long Feather), and Kaadaashaan ("Kadachan"), as well Sitka Charley, as

4148-679: Was ambushed by local people. It also called at Hawai'i. He was appointed chief manager of the Russian-American Company in 1829, effectively governor of its settlements in North America (present day Alaska ). Wrangel was the first of a series of bachelor appointees to the office of governor who had to find a wife before assuming the duties in America, the Russian American Company rules having been changed in 1829. Prior to his departure for Russia's American colonies, he

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4216-549: Was founded at the location of present-day Wrangell and stood near the end of the small peninsula that forms the northeastern side of the mouth of the harbor. The British Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) leased the fort in 1839 and named the stockade Fort Stikine . The Tlingit had used the Stikine River as a trade route to the interior since ancient times, and they protested when the Hudson's Bay Company began to use their trade routes. Two epidemics of smallpox in 1836 and 1840 reduced

4284-562: Was land and 25.566 square miles (66.2 km ) was water. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Wrangell has an oceanic climate ( Cfb ). Summers are mild and rainy with cool nights. Winters are moderately cold, though not very cold by Alaskan standards. The primary industry of the city is fishing . A commercial fishing fleet is harbored in Wrangell and several sports fishing guiding services operate here as well taking tourists and wilderness adventurers to remote locations on

4352-571: Was made under the title A Journey on the Northern Coast of Siberia and the Icy Sea (2 vols., London, 1841). The book influenced Charles Darwin 's thinking on animal navigation , leading him to propose that humans and animals possess an innate ability for dead reckoning . Darwin wrote: With regard to the question of the means by which animals find their way home from a long distance, a striking account, in relation to man, will be found in

4420-455: Was married to Elisabeth Theodora Natalie Karoline de Rossillon, daughter of Baron Wilhelm de Rossillon. He traveled to his post early in 1829, by way of Siberia and Kamchatka . After thoroughly reforming the administration, he introduced the cultivation of the potato, opened and regulated the working of several mines, and urged upon the home government the organization of a fur company. He promoted investment, and sent out missionaries. He began

4488-400: Was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, which was afterwards renamed the Petersburg Census Area (the Petersburg Borough was formed from part of this census area). Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw ("Ḵaachx̱ans Little Lake" with áa-kʼw 'lake-diminutive'). The Tlingit people living in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves

4556-407: Was the first mayor of the CBW. He was succeeded by Jeremy M. Maxand, but was elected in 2012 as mayor again after Maxand declined to seek reelection. The Wrangell Cooperative Association has commissioned a team to restore Chief Shakes House and the totems at Totem Park. It consists of a master carver, Wayne Price, and six assistants, four of them women, accepted after intensive training in the use of

4624-471: Was traditionally called Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw , literally " Ḵaachx̱án' s little lake". Before the harbor mouth was dredged and cleared in the late 19th century, the mouth of this inlet would often go dry at low tide, which led to its being called a lake. Ḵaachx̱án was a man from the village variously known as Ḵaalchʼalʼaan ( Kotzlitzan ) or Chʼaalʼít.aan, meaning "Willow House Village"; or Shaax̱ít.aan meaning "Driftwood House Village." The village site today

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