| Adolf Etolin |
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| 1799 births | |
| 1876 deaths | |
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Some historians believe that Etolin traveled from Russia to America with Vasily Golovnin in the ''Kamchatka'' in 1817 , but no records currently known corroborate this. He served from 1818 to 1825 as a ship master. Etolin was part of a group that surveyed the Bering Sea in 1822 to 1824 . He was the adjutant for the governor of the Russian American colonies in 1834 . He became governor of the Russian-American Company colonies in 1840 to 1845 . He was a member of the board of the Russian-American Company in Saint Petersburg , Russia from 1847 to 1859 . An island in Alaska , Etolin Island , is named after Etolin, as are a cape, a point, and a mountain. |
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