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==== Kolchak Expedition and the Port Alexander Colony (1816-1832) ====
To further strengthen their presence and activity to counter the Dutch explorations, the RussianKurile PacificIsland Company hired the explorer and surveyor A. Kolchak in 1815 to explore the southernmost parts of the Russian Claims. Kolchak sailed from Novo-Arkhangelsk, along the Pacific Northwest coast and into the Salish Sea. The region which Kolchak sailed upon was claimed by both the Russians and the Dutch. Following the successful expedition, the Russian-AmericanKurile Island Company established the short-lived Port Alexander Colony in 1816 on the present-day Kolchak Island (now part of the modern-day Westerzee Province, Tussenland). The colony soon proved to be mismanaged and unprofitable. In 1832, the settlement was abandoned and the Russians dropped their claims in the Pacific Northwest region (Russo-Dutch Treaty of 1832). Remnants of the old Russian rule in the region is evident in the surviving Saint Sofia church, now in present-day [[Westerzee Province]] of Tussenland.
==== Russo-Dutch Treaty of 1832 ====
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