Wrangel

[ rang-guhl; Russian vrahn-gyil ]

noun

1. a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean, off the NE coast of Siberia in the NE Russian Federation in Asia: meteorological station. About 2,000 sq. mi. (5,180 sq. km).

Example Sentences

The last ones died out on Wrangel Island off Siberia's coast 4,000 years ago.

From Reuters

Mr. Nabutov’s mother’s first cousin was an 18-year-old conscript sailor in Crimea when he evacuated with the commander Pyotr Wrangel’s fleet to Constantinople in 1920.

From New York Times

And last week, Eric Regehr, a University of Washington, Seattle, biologist, abandoned plans to join Russian researchers on remote Wrangel Island in an annual campaign, supported by the U.S.

From Science Magazine

This year, polar bears will cross from Alaska to Siberia as they do every spring, plodding across the frozen Chukchi Sea to their summer home on Russia’s Wrangel Island.

From Science Magazine

In recent years, U.S. and Russian scientists converged on Wrangel Island, where as many as 1000 of the animals spend part of the summer.

From Science Magazine