Wrangel

Wrangel or Wrangell can refer to:

  • House of Wrangel, a Baltic German noble family
    • Herman Wrangel ( -1643), a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
    • Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-1676), a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
    • Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870), Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, Governor of Russian America
    • Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878-1928), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
  • Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
    • Wrangel's fleet the last squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy, interned in Tunisia - loyal to Pyotr Wrangel

Places in Siberia and Alaska named after Ferdinand von Wrangel:

  • Wrangel Island, a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean
  • Wrangell Island, Alaska
  • Wrangell, Alaska, a town on Wrangell Island
  • Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
  • Wrangell Narrows
  • Wrangell Mountains
  • Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
  • Mount Wrangell, Alaska

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