Wrangel
Americannoun
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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
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
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
By 10,000 years ago there was not a single mammoth to be found in the world, except on a few remote Arctic islands, most conspicuously Wrangel.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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