* Wrangell Narrows, a winding channel in the Alexander Archipelago

The only other city is Kupreanof, on the eastern side, across the Wrangell Narrows from the city of Petersburg on nearby Mitkof Island.

Bordered by Mitkof Island on one side, and Kuprenof and Woewodski Islands on the other, the Wrangell Narrows creates the only navigable ' Inside Passage ' at this latitude.

Spirit Creek is the southern most stream on the island in the Wrangell Narrows, just two miles from where the narrows opens onto Sumner Strait.

* Wrangell Narrows Wrangell Narrows

The Wrangell Narrows is a winding, 35-km-long ( 22 mi ) channel between Mitkof Island and Kupreanof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.

The Wrangell Narrows is one of the six Listed narrows in Southeast Alaska.

Aerial view of south entrange to Wrangell Narrows, July 1931

Wrangell was founded by Russians as one of the oldest non-Native settlements in Alaska.

The range takes its name from Mount Wrangell, which is one of the largest andesite shield volcanoes in the world, and also the only presently active volcano in the range.

Considered one of the last truly wild major rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged, largely pristine, area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage, just north of the city of Wrangell, which is situated at the north end of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago.

At some point during the Jurassic, the Wrangell, Alexander and Chugach Terranes collide and begin moving as one unit.

** Wrangell, Alaska, a city on Wrangell Island and one of the oldest non-native settlements in Alaska

Wrangell Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile ( 2 km ) northeast of the central business district of Wrangell, a city and borough in the U. S. state of Alaska.

Wrangell Airport has one runway designated 10 / 28 with an asphalt surface measuring 5, 999 by 150 feet ( 1, 828 x 46 m ).

* Totem District ( formerly of Southeast Alaska Council, comprises Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Prince of Wales Island, and environs )

The day boat routes connect the smaller communities of Southeast Alaska with each other and with the Southeast Alaska mainline communities Ketchikan, Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau, Haines and Skagway ) that serve as regional centers for commerce, government health services, and / or connections to other transportation systems.

Mountains include Mount McKinley in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Ray Mountains.

Stunted Lodgepole Pine | shore pine growing on muskeg in Wrangell, Alaska.

Glacier Bay National Park is located in southeast Alaska, as is Wrangell – St.

Lake Louise is located between four mountain ranges: The Wrangell, Talkeetna, Chugach and Alaska Ranges.

Meyers Chuck is a neighbourhood in the City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska, United States.

Category: Geography of Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska

Wrangell is a city and borough in the U. S. state of Alaska.

Young's school was the nucleus of the later Wrangell Institute, a boarding school for Alaska Natives through the mid-20th century.

“ Elephant ’ s Nose ” point on Woronofski Island, from Wrangell, Alaska

Wrangell is located on the northern tip of Wrangell Island, an island in the Alaska Panhandle.

Category: Protected areas of Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska

** Wrangell Mountains, southern Alaska

The SS Fort Stikine was a 7, 142 gross register ton freighter built in 1942 in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, under a lend-lease agreement, and was named after Fort Stikine, a former outpost of the Hudson's Bay Company located at what is now Wrangell, Alaska.

* Wrangell, Alaska ( 1960 )

To pursue her love of dogsled racing and breeding huskies, she moved to the Wrangell Mountains area of Alaska.

The Wrangell Mountains are a high mountain range of eastern Alaska in the United States.

The Wrangell Mountains are just to the northwest of the Saint Elias Mountains and northeast of the Chugach Mountains, which are along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska.

Extreme points in all U. S. territory: Point Barrow, Alaska | Point Barrow, Rose Atoll, Wake Island, Cape Wrangell | Peaked Island ( red dots ); Point Udall ( Guam ) | Point Udall, Guam and Point Udall ( U. S. Virgin Islands ) | Point Udall, USVI are shown as green dots.

* Peaked Island, offshore from Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska — westernmost point in the 50 states, by direction of travel, and last sunset ( at equinox ) in all U. S. territory

It drains a large region of the Wrangell Mountains and Chugach Mountains into the Gulf of Alaska.

Category: Landforms of Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska

* Wrangell Island, an island in the Alexander Archipelago, off the coast of Alaska

On June 1, 2008 it was annexed into the newly created City and Borough of Wrangell, most of whose territory came from the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area.

Waters began his business career carrying mail by boat from Wrangell to Sulzer.

The Anan Bear Viewing area is only reachable by boat from Wrangell.

Notable streams drain into Agripina Bay and Port Wrangell from the glaciers and through the valleys of the refuge.

It begins by flowing almost due north in a valley that lies on the east side of Mount Sanford, and then turns west, forming the northwest edge of the Wrangell Mountains and separating them from the Mentasta Mountains to the northeast.

* Heinrich Johann Freiherr Wrangell from Addinal ( Andrei Ivanovich Wrangel, 1736 – 1813 ), Russian General-Lieutenant

In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or Wrangell.

An 1844 Russian chart shows Kupreanof separated from Mitkof Island and Etolin, Wrangell, Woronkofski, and Zarembo Islands separated from each other.

The Wrangell Volcanic Field is a volcanic field stretching from eastern Alaska in the United States to the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada.

A third Eagle River flows northwest 13 km ( 8 mi ) from Eagle Lake to a different Eagle Bay, 8 km ( 5 mi ) southwest of the head of Bradfield Canal, near Wrangell.

" The man in the Hathaway shirt " with his aristocratic eye patch which used Baron George Wrangell as model ; " The man from Schweppes is here " introduced Commander Edward Whitehead, the elegant bearded Brit, bringing Schweppes ( and " Schweppervesence ") to the U. S .; a famous headline in the automobile business, " At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock ";

The glacier flows from an extensive icefield which covers the northern flanks of Mount Wrangell, a large shield volcano.

The Kuskulana Glacier trends southwest 24 km ( 15 mi ) from Mount Blackburn to its terminus at the head of Kuskulana River, 46 km ( 29 mi ) northwest of McCarthy in the Wrangell Mountains.

His opponents in that Republican race were Gail Phillips, State Representative from Homer, Robin Taylor, State Senator from Wrangell, and Sarah Palin who had been a mayor of Wasilla.

** Order 2004-5-5 ( May 4, 2004 ): tentatively reselects Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide subsidized essential air service at Cordova, Gustavus, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Yakutat ( southeast ) Alaska, for the period from October 1, 2003, through April 30, 2006, at an annual rate of $ 5, 723, 008.

** Order 2006-3-20 ( March 22, 2006 ): re-selecting Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide subsidized essential air service at Cordova, Gustavus, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Yakutat ( southeast ) Alaska, for the period from May 1, 2006, through April 30, 2009.