InYn 1849, lanne [[Henry Kellett]], captainkaptein offan [[HMS Herald (1822)|HMS ''Herald'']],landedop it oneilân anden namedneamde [[it ''Herald Island]]'', anden thoughthoewol't heer sawyn anotherit islandwesten toin theoar west,eilân whichseach, hedat calleder "Plover Island";thereafterneamde, waard it wasop indicatedde onkaarten [[Unitedfan Kingdomde ofBritske GreatAdmiraliteit Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Admiralty charts]]oantsjut asmei "Kellett Land."
TheDe firstearste recordedlanning landingdêr't onin theferslach islandfan wasis, bywie ady Germanfan whaler,de Dútske walfiskjager [[Eduard Dallmann]], inyn 1866.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tammiksaar, |first=E. |coauthors=en N.G. Sukhova andmei I.R. Stone, |year=1999; |month=Sep |title=''Hypothesis Versus Fact: August Petermann and Polar Research'' yn |journal=Arctic |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=237–244 |url=[http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic52-3-237.pdf] }}</ref>
In August 1867, Thomas Long, an [[United States|American]] [[whaling]] captain, "approached it as near as fifteen miles. I have named this northern land Wrangell [sic] Land … as an appropriate tribute to the memory of a man who spent three consecutive years north of [[68th parallel north|latitude 68°]], and demonstrated the problem of this open polar sea forty-five years ago, although others of much later date have endeavored to claim the merit of this discovery."
