Wrangel

American  

[rang-guhl, vrahn-gyil] / ˈræŋ gəl, ˈvrɑn gyɪl /

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).

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Example Sentences

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

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2023

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 • Mar. 4, 2022

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

Steele tells a story of a meeting some years back with former New York Congressman Charles Wrangel, whose districts never had any golf courses and certainly no private clubs in them.

From Golf Digest • May 17, 2017

The mammoths of Wrangel continued to prosper for a few more millennia, then suddenly disappeared about 4,000 years ago, just when the first humans reached the island.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari