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[bull. 187 



Woronzof; point, at lit-ail of Cook inlet. Named by Vancouver, in 1794, "after His 

 Excellency the Russian ambassador at the British court." 



I IV I (•.«/( '///(. hay: .see Kisselen. 



Worthing-ton; glacier, about 15 miles east of Valdes and trilxitary to Ptarmio-an 

 creek. Name from Schrader, 1900. 



]Vo!tru»e»ski, cape; see Kasilof. 



Wosnesenski; glacier, on Kenai peninsula, near Kachemak bay. Cook inlet. So 

 nameil by Dall, in 1880, after Ellas G. Wosnesenski, of the St. Petersburg 

 Academy of Sciences, who made collections and observations in this region 

 in 1842-1844. 

 Wosnesenski; island, off the southern shore of Alaska peninsula and west of Unaa 

 island, Shumagin group. Veniaminof and Lutke called it Peregrebny, 

 in Aleut, Unatkuyuk, meaning crested or serrated. Later it was called 

 Vosnesenski, after Elias G. Wosnesenski, who, in 1842-1844, explored and 

 collected, for the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, in western Alaska. 

 This name has had many spellings, Vossnessensky, Wossnessensky, Wos- 

 nesensky, and even Vozoychenski. 

 Wosnesenski; native village, on Wosnesenski island. A chapel, costing $1500, was 

 erected in this village by the natives and dedicated under the name of 

 Ascensio7i. 



Wrangell; cape, the we.sternmost point of Attu i.sland, western Aleutians. So called 

 by Lutke, in 1836, after Baron von Wrangell. 



Wrangell; harbor, near the north end of Wrangell island, Alexander archipela-o 

 Surveyed, in 1834, by Capt. Lieut. Dionysius Feodorovich Zarembo and by 

 hmi named after Capt. Adolph Karlovich Etolin, who, in 1840 became 

 director of the Russian-American colony. The harbor has been variouslv 

 called Etohn harbor. Port Wrangell, and Wrangell harbor. The last 

 appears to be the prevailing usage at present and is here adopted 



Wrangell; island, Alexander archipelago. Named by the Russians after Admiral 

 Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell. Erroneouslv spelled Wranc^le 

 and \\ rangel. The spelling of this word Wrangell forms the subject of a 

 special note in Baer and Helmersen's Beitrage, etc. (vol 1 p 398) in 

 which It is stated ^that while different persons of the name have adopted 

 different modes for spelling it, the individual here referred to one of 

 the most eminent of that noble and distinguished familv, invariablv 



r i! 1 u' "'"' '"*^ ^''''' ^''- ^^'^o^ding to Tebenkof the native name is 

 Kach-khanna. 



Wrangell; island off the northern shore of Siberia, northw^esterlv from Bering 



Anr! ■ Z,Tf''""" "^ 'il" ^^"'^ ^'^^ '"P"^'^^ ^y ^^t^^'^'^' "^ ^^^-r«h ani 

 April, 1823, to Baron von Wrangell, who then made an unsuccessful search 

 tor It. it vvas first clearly seen and its shore delineated bv Capt Thomas 



calls W 7 'f'^'r "'^^"^-' '^^^^ ^^'^^'' "^ '^-^--^' 1867, in.l bv h m 



callecM^rangelPs Land. From that date to 1881 it was shown onmai" 



tnl th LT ^ '"^'' extending indefinitely northward and, by 



some, thought to connect with Greenland across the north pole Its 



iUitborrtf ' ^"' w'^'"''' ''^ ^^^^'^' "^ ''''' ^-d since that" time 

 t has borne the name Wrangell island. Possibly Plover island of Kellett 



Wranp..n i i i' ""'^^ '°™' ^"^^ ^^" ^^'' ^^^^^^ seen from afar. 



Wrangell is and, one of the Necker group, Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago 



Va^ LTin'lSr"!!^' ""f^" '^^^^^^" ''^'^ — ^ ^^^" Wrangdl by 

 Wranp..ll I ^ ^' ^"""^ ^''°*^^" "^^^ ^^ ^^s called Little Wran-ell 



wrangell mountain (17,500 feet hi^h^ oao/^f n ■ ^'lu^eii. 



Named bv ti t? .-' ' ^^ Copper river, near latitude 62°. 



ftn ih .1 ^ T''' ^^'"^ ^^^°^ "^"^ Wrangell, whose branch of the 



family always used the double "1." Erroneously Wran^^le. 



