<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Chirikov" id="mwaA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aleksei Chirikov">Aleksei Chirikov</a> sights land in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Alaska" id="mwaQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southeast Alaska">Southeast Alaska</a>. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>.