Zarembo Island ( Tlingit: ''ShtaxʼNoow'') is an island in the

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of southeastern

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. It lies directly south of Mitkof Island and northwest of Etolin Island. To the northwest is Kupreanof Island and to the southwest is Prince of Wales Island. It has a land area of , making it the 34th largest island in the United States. It has no permanent resident population. It was first charted in 1793 by Laurenz Hartmann, one of

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's officers during his 1791-95 expedition. He only charted its north, west, and south coasts, not realizing it was an island. The island is named after Dionysius Zarembo, a Polish employee of the Russian American Company and explorer of Alaska. Usually known as Dionysius Zarembo, he was

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of the Russian-American Company ship ''Chichagof'' during the foundation of the Redoubt San Dionisio, named for his name-saint, a fortification at present-day Wrangell which was established to forestall encroachment on the Stikine region by the

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. Zarembo Island mineral springs was bottled from the late 1890s to the early 1910s by a bottling company in

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, Washington. Zarembo mineral water won a gold medal at the 1904 Lewis & Clark Centennial and had a major display at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

References

Zarembo Island: Block 1037, Census Tract 3, Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
United States Census Bureau

* Islands of the Alexander Archipelago Polish-American history Islands of Wrangell, Alaska Islands of Alaska {{WrangellAK-geo-stub