[10] In 1855, up to September 8, he had taken 39 whales, which produced 1,800 to 1,900 barrels of oil;[11] and in three seasons from 1855 to 1857, he got 8,000 to 9,000 barrels of whale oil with the help of his tender Caroline, mainly cruising in Tugur Bay and Academy Bay.
When he returned the following season three of the four men left with her had died, with the last expiring shortly after being taken aboard India.
[18] In 1867, as captain of the Nile during a whaling voyage in the North Pacific Ocean, Long entered the Chukchi Sea and sighted Wrangel Island.
[20] ...sailed to the eastward along the land during the fifteenth and part of the sixteenth (August 1867), and in some places approached it as near as fifteen miles.
I have named this northern land Wrangell Land as an appropriate tribute to the memory of a man who spent three consecutive years north of latitude 68°, and demonstrated the problem of this open polar sea forty-five years ago, although others of much later date have endeavored to claim the merit of this discovery.