Description
Scarce map of Wrangel Island off the north coast of Siberia made from a survey conducted on 23 August, under the commanded of Lieutenant R. M. Berry during the second search for the Jeannette, landed a party on Wrangel Island that stayed about two weeks and conducted an extensive survey of the southern coast.[
In 1764, the Cossack Sergeant Stepan Andreyev had claimed to have sighted this island. Calling it Tikegen Land, Andreyev found evidence of its inhabitants, the Krahay. Eventually, the island was named after Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, who, after reading Andreyev’s report and hearing Chukchi stories of land at the island’s coordinates, set off on an expedition (1820–1824) to discover the island, with no success.
From the original edition of the Royal Geographical Journal, London.
