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De earste lanning dêr't in ferslach fan is, wie dy fan de Dútske walfiskjager [[Eduard Dallmann]], yn 1866.<ref>Tammiksaar, E. en N.G. Sukhova mei I.R. Stone, 1999; ''Hypothesis Versus Fact: August Petermann and Polar Research'' yn Arctic [http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic52-3-237.pdf] </ref>
Augustus 1867 kaam Thomas Long, in Amerikaanske kaptein fan in walfiskfarder, oant op 15 km foar de kust fan it eilân. Hy neamde it ''Wrangell Land'' nei Ferdinant von Wrangel.
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."
[[George W. DeLong]], commandinghaad [[USSfan Jeannettein (1878)|USSekspedysje ''Jeanette'']], led an expedition inyn 1879 attemptingdy't tonei reachde theNoardpoal [[North Pole]]woe, expectingrekke tomei gosyn byskip thefêst "eastyn sideit ofiis Kelletten land,"dreaun whichôf heoant thoughtflakby extended far into the ArcticWrangel. HisIt shipskip becamewaard lockedfan init theiis [[seatesplintere ice|polaren ice pack]] and drifted eastward within sight of Wrangel before being crushed and sunksonk. AOp landing12 onaugustus Wrangel Island took place on [[August 12]], [[1881]], bylanne ain partygroep fromfan thede [[United States Revenue Cutter Service|USRC]] [[USRCop Thomasit Corwineilân (1876)|dy''Corwin'']],t whoit claimedopeaske thefoar islandde forFeriene theSteaten United States and nameden it "New Columbia." neamde<ref>Muir, John, 1917, [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_cruise_of_the_corwin/introduction.html ''The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeannette.''] Norman S. Berg, Dunwoody, Georgia. ([[John Muir]]'s description of the 1881 exploration of Wrangel Island.)</ref> TheIn expedition,ekspedysje underûnder thekommando command offan [[Calvin L. Hooper]], wassocht seeking thede ''Jeannette'' anden twotwa missingfermiste [[whaler]]swalfiskjagers inyn additiondy tokriten. conductingDêrneist generalferkennen exploration.hja Itde includedfierdere [[naturalregio; history|naturalist]]de natuerûndersiker [[John Muir]], whowie publishedderby. theHy firstpublisearre descriptionletter ofde Wrangelearste Islandbeskriuwing fan Wrangel-eilân.
[[Image:Wrangel Island tundra.jpg|thumb|left|600px|Arktyske toendra op Wrangel-eilân]]
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