Wrangel Island

/ ˈræŋɡəl /

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)

Example Sentences

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

From Reuters

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

"We know that mammoths and Asian elephants diverge somewhere between 5 and 6 million years ago. We know that they were widespread throughout the ice ages, lived everywhere across the northern hemisphere, and survived for the longest on the isolated islands like Wrangel Island and Saint Paul Island."

From Salon