Wrangel Island
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Polar bears gather on Wrangel Island in ever-increasing numbers, possibly driven ashore by the loss of sea ice, say researchers.
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
“By the end, the Wrangel Island mammoths were genetically screwed. Understanding how that happened might help us figure out which species today are most at risk of the same thing happening.”
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
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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