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The Naming of Alaska
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Zagoskin, 1842-1844
Lieut. Laurenti Alexief Zagoskin made explorations on the lower Yukon, the Kuskokwim, and in Norton sound in 1842-1844, under a commission from the Russian American Company. Of this exploration he published an account, in Russian, in two volumes, at St. Petersburg, 1847-48. An account of it, and also an extract from, Zagoskin's diary, accompanied by a map, was published by S. I. Zelanie in the Journal of the Russian Geographic Society, 1849, Vol. I, pp. 211-266.
Zarembo, 1834-1838
Capt.-Lieut. Dionysius Fedorovich Zarembo, in command of the Russian American Company's ship Prince Alexander, sailed from Cronstadt on August 14, 1840, and, going via Cape Horn, arrived at Sitka on April 3, 1841. With him on the voyage went Lieutenant Zagoskin. Zarembo had previously been in the Russian colonies, having first gone out as pilot in 1816 with Ponafidin in the Suworof and again in 1819 with the same officer in the Borodino. He surveyed Wrangell harbor in 1834 and Woewodski harbor in 1838. His maps are shown as insets on Russian Hvdrographic chart 1396, published in 1848. For a very brief and unofficial account of his voyage see Journal Russian Hydrographic Department, 1860, Vol. VIII, pp. 189-140. Zarembo, in command of the brig Chichago founded the present town of Wrangell in the spring of 1834, building there a stockade or fort, which after him was named Dionysius.
