Wrangel Island

/ ˈræŋɡəl /

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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