Wrangel Island
Britishnoun
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In recent years, U.S. and Russian scientists converged on Wrangel Island, where as many as 1000 of the animals spend part of the summer.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2022
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
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
I then attempted a southerly march to Wrangel Island, but found such a course impracticable on account of northerly drift of ice.
From A Man's Woman by Frank Norris
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