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Wrangel Island

British  
/ 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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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By late August, as the Rodgers neared Wrangel Island, the log began making the observations about ice that future scientists would find so valuable.

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2019

A mammoth population survived on Wrangel Island, in the East Siberian Sea, and was isolated from human contact until as recently as 1700 BC.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

The researchers identified a series of major detrimental mutations in the Wrangel Island mammoth.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 2, 2017

Still, as the Wrangel Island mammoths demonstrate, some species persisted in small numbers for a few thousand years more.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2013

We were now in the latitude of Wrangel Island, but in west longitude 165.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

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