[Right Wing Professor]

It's quite clear which Wrangel Island the articles are referring to, and it has nothing to do with Wrangell, Alaska. Wrangell is a frequent variant of the explorer's name (as in the Wrangell Mountains, for example). You can find both spellings used. John Muir used the two-l spelling.

You, on the other hand, referred to this 2925 sq. mile island as a 'large rock outcropping'; you referred to the article as 'an old Guanno Islands wives tale' (Those double consonants are a bear, aren't they!) .

By the way, here's a sketch, drawn by John Muir, of the American flag flying over Wrangel Island, north of the Bering Strait. .

[Southack]

"It's quite clear which Wrangel Island the articles are referring to, and it has nothing to do with Wrangell, Alaska."

No, it isn't clear at all which island the article is referring. For one thing, the article says "Wrangell," not "Wrangel."

For another, the article claims that American citizens are living on Wrangell...something that the Russian speaking Siberians on "Wrangel" island might find as a shock.

For a third, "Wrangel" is only a guano island, protected by the Guano Treaty only as long as bat guano is being actively mined there by U.S. citizens.