Wrangel

[rang-guhl, vrahn-gyil]

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).

Example Sentences

He assembles a team of four young men and sends them to Wrangel Island, a desolate spot in the sea between Alaska and Siberia, and is content to be the expedition’s “figurehead, funder, and chief strategist,” setting the team in motion and hoping for the best from the comforts of his home in the U.S.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

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

Read more on Reuters

Mr. Nabutov’s mother’s first cousin was an 18-year-old conscript sailor in Crimea when he evacuated with the commander Pyotr Wrangel’s fleet to Constantinople in 1920.

Read more on New York Times

And last week, Eric Regehr, a University of Washington, Seattle, biologist, abandoned plans to join Russian researchers on remote Wrangel Island in an annual campaign, supported by the U.S.

Read more on Science Magazine

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.

Read more on Science Magazine