Wrangel
Americannoun
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
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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