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 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: Wrangel also published: Ocherk puti iz Sitki v Sankt-Peterburg (Report of Travel from Sitka to St. Petersburg) (1836) French translation: Journal de voyage de Sitka à Saint Pétersbourg (Paris, 1836) English translation prepared from the French: Journal of a Voyage from Sitka to St. Petersburg (London, 1837) Nachrichten über die Russischen Besitzungen an der Nordwestküste America's (2 vols., St. Petersburg, 1839) French translation: Renseignements statistiques et ethnographiques sur les possessions Russes de la côte Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique (Paris, 1839) English translation: Statistical and Ethnographical Notices on the Russian Possessions in North America (London, 1841) List of places named after Wrangel Wrangel Island, the arctic island north of Chukotka, named by Thomas Long after him. Wrangel had noticed swarms of birds flying north, and, questioning the native population, he determined that there must be an undiscovered island in the Arctic Ocean. He searched for it on the Kolymskaya expedition, but failed to find it. Wrangell Island, an island in the Alexander Archipelago, off the coast of Alaska Wrangell, Alaska, a city on Wrangell Island and one of the oldest non-native settlements in Alaska Fort Wrangel, a US Army base at Wrangell, originally Fort Stikine when under British control Wrangell Airport, an airport near Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area a census area containing Wrangell Island. Wrangell Narrows, a winding channel in the Alexander Archipelago Cape Wrangell of Attu Island, the westernmost point of Alaska (and the United States) Mount Wrangell, a volcano in Alaska Wrangell Volcanic Field, named after Mount Wrangell Wrangell Mountains, named after Mount Wrangell USS Wrangell (AE-12), named after Mount Wrangell Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, named after Wrangell mountains Wrangellia, a geologic terrane of Southeast Alaska See also List of Baltic German explorers References External links Overview of Roela (in German: Ruil) (the landed estate of the Wrangels) in Estonian Manors Portal Wrangell's 1839 Comparative Word-List of Alaskan languages 1796 births 1870 deaths People from Pskov People from Pskovsky Uyezd Baltic-German people Barons of