"Despite the hysterical ranting of certain Bushbots on this thread, this appears to be a legitimate issue."
No Child, no matter how you play this off in your pathetic classes, it ain't a legitimate issue.
If you claim "Wrangell" then you can't explain why there is no Russian guard tower on that Alaskan island or why their U.S. chamber of commerce web site is still online.
If you claim "Wrangel" then you can't explain the dearth of Alaskan eskimoes (per the article for this thread), the lack of Guano Treaty applicability (the only potential shot at having any U.S. sovereignty there), or the Russian wildlife refuge there.
In short, you are DEBUNKED!
Nor are you the first to fall. This whole charade was hashed out here on FR in great detail more than 3 years ago already!
Thus, you've fallen for a debunked re-hash. That's like falling for an email scam like "the gangs will get you if you flash your high beams at them on the highway" years after such nonsense has already been exposed.
No Child, no matter how you play this off in your pathetic classes, it ain't a legitimate issueAh, the ad hominem. Sure sign of a losing argument.
If you claim "Wrangell" then you can't explain why there is no Russian guard tower on that Alaskan island or why their U.S. chamber of commerce web site is still online.
For those of you keeping score, it was Southack who confused Wrangell, Alaska with Wrangel (sometimes spelled Wrangell) Island. Now, in a nice example of chutzpah, he is trying to lay his confusion at the feet of his opponents.
If you claim "Wrangel" then you can't explain the dearth of Alaskan eskimoes (per the article for this thread), the lack of Guano Treaty applicability (the only potential shot at having any U.S. sovereignty there), or the Russian wildlife refuge there.
Wrangel Island was never claimed under the Guano Island Act. This is a complete fabrication on Southack's part. The US claim is based on the first landing on the Island by the USS Corwin in 1881, where Samuel Hopper, Captain, USN, "Went on shore and took possession of in the name of the United States". The Soviet Union's establishment of a gulag on the island, which Southack seems unaccountably to believe gives them claim on it, came much later.
Jesse Helms' commentary on the status of the five Arctic islands remains unrebutted.