Wrangel Island
Britishnoun
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The last ones died out on Wrangel Island off Siberia's coast 4,000 years ago.
From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2023
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
A terminal colony persisted on tiny Wrangel Island north of the Siberian mainland thousands of years after the rest of its kind had disappeared.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 2, 2017
Hunkered down on their final holdout, Siberia’s Wrangel Island, the shaggy herbivores died out as rising seas shrank their refuge and warm weather baked their cool grasslands.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2013
Wrangel Island again calling Robins; but no one paid any heed.
From Tarrano the Conqueror by Cummings, Ray
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