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    Wrangel Island (Russian: О́стров Вра́нгеля, romanized: Ostrov Vrangelya, IPA: [ˈostrəf ˈvrangʲɪlʲə]; Chukot: Умӄиԓир, romanized: Umqiḷir, IPA: [umqiɬir]...
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    from Columbian mammoths, while the woolly mammoths that existed on Wrangel Island north of Siberia were once considered dwarfs, but are not anymore. Sardinia...
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    staff struggled to survive, first on the ice and later on the shores of Wrangel Island. In all, eleven men died before rescue. The Canadian Arctic Expedition...
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    Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S...
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    Chukchi Sea, 60 kilometres (30 nautical miles) east of Waring Point, Wrangel Island. It rises in sheer cliffs, making it quite inaccessible, either by ship...
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    Iñupiat woman who lived for two years as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia. Ada Delutuk was born on May 10, 1898 or 1899, in...
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    reaching Wrangel Island on their own but perished. The remaining members of the expedition, under command of Captain Bartlett, made their way to Wrangel Island...
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    period). Musk ox, reintroduced in 1976 to Russia (Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Island) and Scandinavia. European bison, saved from extinction in zoos in the...
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    This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi), sorted...
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    miles with the ice, passing north of Wrangel Island. In May 1881 it approached Jeannette Island and Henrietta Island. According to The Annual Report of...
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    miles with the ice, passing north of Wrangel Island. In May 1881 it approached Jeannette Island and Henrietta Island. According to The Annual Report of...
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    the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort...
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    about 700–400,000 years ago in Siberia, with some surviving on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as roughly 3,700 to 4,000 years...
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    east coast, not realizing it was an island. It was occupied in 1834 by the Russians. It is named after Ferdinand Wrangel, a Baltic German explorer in Russian...
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    although isolated populations survived on St. Paul Island until 5,600 years ago, and on Wrangel Island until 4,000 years ago. After its extinction, humans...
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    Vilcheka, Franz Josef Land Vize Island, northern fringe of the Kara Sea Wrangel Island (Vrangelya) Yaya Island Yunosti Island, Angara River in the city of...
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    in relict populations on islands around the Bering Strait into the Holocene, with their latest survival being on Wrangel Island around 4,000 years ago....
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  • (Antarctica), a mountain in Antarctica Berry Peak, highest point of Wrangel Island Mount Berry Mall, Rome, Georgia, United States This disambiguation page...
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    lemming in Canada, is a small lemming found in Arctic North America and Wrangel Island. At one time, it was considered to be a subspecies of the Arctic lemming...
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    population of mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3750 BC, and the small mammoths of Wrangel Island survived until 1650 BC. Bison in Alaska...
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    American ground sloths were extinct, woolly mammoths died out on remote Wrangel Island 6,000 years after their extinction on the mainland, while Steller's...
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    on Wrangel Island, in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It was abandoned in the 1970s. Zvyozdny is located on the southern shore of Wrangel Island, west...
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    Ushakov Island (Russian Arctic) halfway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya Wiese Island Wrangel Island Herald Island Five new islands were discovered...
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    (2003). Comparative analysis of the mammoth populations on Wrangel Island and the Channel Islands. DEINSEA 9: 415–420. ISSN 0923-9308 Aziz, F.; van den Bergh...
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    of Kotelni Island – the Northern limit of Laptev Sea. From the Northern extremity of Kotelni Island to the Northern point of Wrangel Island – the Northern...
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    is to pass to the east of Wrangel Island and the Chukchi Peninsula, the easternmost part of Russian Siberia. (Wrangel Island lies directly on the meridian...
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  • adjective for something related to the Soviet Union Soviet Mountain, Wrangel Island Soviet (band), American synth-rock band Sovetsky (disambiguation), Russian...
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    Station State Nature Reserve “Wrangel Island "Ministry of Natural Resources of the russian Federation – History of Wrangel Island". Archived from the original...
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    Pleistocene-Holocene, with the last population of mammoths persisting on Wrangel Island until around 4,000 years ago. Deinotherium Embrithopoda Eritherium azzouzorum...
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    Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east. This sea borders on the...
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