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[[File:Arvid Adolf Etholén.jpg|thumb|Arvid Adolf Etholén von J. E. Lindh, 1839]]
'''Arvid Adolf Etholén''' (* [[9. Mai]] [[1799]] in [[Helsinki]]; † [[29. März]] [[1876]] in [[Elimäki]]) war ein [[Finnland|finnischer]] [[Marineoffizier]] und [[Entdecker]]. Étholen erreichte [[Sitka]] (früher Novoarchangelsk) im Jahre 1818. Er war [[Gouverneur]] der [[Russisch-Amerikanische Kolonien|russisch-amerikanischen Kolonien]] zwischen 1840-1845.

==Career==
Etolin traveled from [[Russia]] to [[United States|America]] with [[Vasily Golovnin]] on the ''[[Russian frigate Kamchatka|Kamchatka]]'' in 1817, and he is mentioned in [[Kiril Timofeevich Khlĕbnikov]]'s ''Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America'' (1835), with the following comment on [[Alexander Andreyevich Baranov|Baranov]]’s part: “If only the Main Office could have sent me men like yourselves earlier, then I would very likely have had more success, and I would have found it pleasant to pass the time in their company!”.<ref>''Zhizneopisanie Aleksandra Andreevicha Baranova, Glavnago Pravitelia Rossiĭskih Koloniĭ v Amerikĕ'', Kiril Timofeevich Khlĕbnikov: v Morskoĭ Tipografii, Sanktpeterburg, 1835. (English: ''Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America'', translated by Colin Bearne, edited by Richard Pierce, the Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1973).</ref>

Etolin served from 1818 to 1825 as a ship master. He was part of a group that surveyed the [[Bering Sea]] in 1822 to 1824. He was the adjutant for the Chief Manager ("Governor") of [[Russian America]] in 1834, and became Chief Manager himself from 1840 to 1845. He was a member of the board of the Russian-American Company in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia from 1847 to 1859. Etolin died at his estate in [[Elimäki]], Finland.

==Legacy==
The name Etolin, based on the Russian version of Etholén's name, can be found in several places on the map of Alaska. [[Etolin Island]] was named after Etolin by the United States in the wake of the [[Alaska Purchase]] of 1867 (it was formerly the Duke of York's Island). There is also [[Etolin Strait]], as well as a cape, a point and a mountain.<ref>''The Finns in America'' (by Taru Spiegel, Reference Librarian. The Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/FinnsAmer/finchro.html]</ref>

The Etholén collection (''Etholén Alaskassa'') in the National Museum of Finland contains a number of [[ethnographic|Alaskan ethnographic]] items.<ref>''The Etholén collection : the ethnographic Alaskan collection of Adolf Etholén and his contemporaries in the National Museum of Finland'' (by Pirjo Varjola Helsinki: National Board of Antiquities, 1990)</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kenraalit/?gid=109 100 Faces from Finland – a Biographical Kaleidoscope: Etholén, Arvid Adolf] {{fi icon}}
*[http://www.nba.fi/fi/kaukaa_haettua Etholén Alaska at Museovirasto] {{fi icon}}

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