Wrangel Island (Russian: О́стров Вра́нгеля, romanized: Ostrov Vrangelya, IPA:[ˈostrəfˈvrangʲɪlʲə]; Chukot: Умӄиԓир, romanized: Umqiḷir, IPA: [umqiɬir], "island of polar bears"[1]) is an island of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the 92nd largest island in the world and roughly the size of Crete. Located in the Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea, the island lies astride the 180th meridian. The International Date Line is therefore displaced eastwards at this latitude to avoid the island as well as the Chukchi Peninsula on the Russian mainland, to keep the island on the same day as the rest of Russia. The closest land to Wrangel Island is the tiny and rocky Herald Island located 60 kilometres (32 nautical miles) to the east.[2] Its straddling the 180th meridian makes its north shore at that point both the northeasternmost and northwesternmost point of land in the world by strict longitude; using the International Date Line instead those respective points become Herald Island and Alaska's Cape Lisburne.
Most of Wrangel Island, with the adjacent Herald Island, is a federally-protected nature sanctuary administered by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. In 1976, Wrangel Island and all of its surrounding waters were classified as a "zapovednik" (a "strict nature reserve") and, as such, receive the highest level of protection, excluding virtually all human activity other than conservation research and scientific purposes. In 1999, the Chukotka Regional government extended the protected marine area to 24 nmi (44 km) offshore. As of 2003, there were four rangers who reside on the island year-round, while a core group of about 12 scientists conduct research during the summer months. Wrangel Island was home to the last surviving population of woolly mammoths, with radiocarbon dating suggesting the species persisted on the island until around 4,000 years ago (2000 BC).
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^Kosko, M.K., M.P. Cecile, J.C. Harrison, V.G. Ganelin, N.V., Khandoshko, and B.G. Lopatin, 1993, Geology of Wrangel Island, Between Chukchi and East Siberian Seas, Northeastern Russia. Bulletin 461, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa Ontario, 101 pp.
from Columbian mammoths, while the woolly mammoths that existed on WrangelIsland north of Siberia were once considered dwarfs, but are not anymore. Sardinia...
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...
staff struggled to survive, first on the ice and later on the shores of WrangelIsland. In all, eleven men died before rescue. The Canadian Arctic Expedition...
reaching WrangelIsland on their own but perished. The remaining members of the expedition, under command of Captain Bartlett, made their way to Wrangel Island...
Iñupiat woman who lived for two years as a castaway on the uninhabited WrangelIsland, north of Siberia. Ada Delutuk was born on May 10, 1898 or 1899, in...
Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S...
period). Musk ox, reintroduced in 1976 to Russia (Taimyr Peninsula and WrangelIsland) and Scandinavia. European bison, saved from extinction in zoos in the...
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...
about 700–400,000 years ago in Siberia, with some surviving on Russia's WrangelIsland in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as roughly 3,700 to 4,000 years...
the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off WrangelIsland, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort...
Vilcheka, Franz Josef Land Vize Island, northern fringe of the Kara Sea WrangelIsland (Vrangelya) Yaya Island Yunosti Island, Angara River in the city of...
although isolated populations survived on St. Paul Island until 5,600 years ago, and on WrangelIsland until 4,000 years ago. After its extinction, humans...
in relict populations on islands around the Bering Strait into the Holocene, with their latest survival being on WrangelIsland around 4,000 years ago....
population of mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3750 BC, and the small mammoths of WrangelIsland survived until 1650 BC. Bison in Alaska...
lemming in Canada, is a small lemming found in Arctic North America and WrangelIsland. At one time, it was considered to be a subspecies of the Arctic lemming...
miles with the ice, passing north of WrangelIsland. In May 1881 it approached Jeannette Island and Henrietta Island. According to The Annual Report of...
American ground sloths were extinct, woolly mammoths died out on remote WrangelIsland 6,000 years after their extinction on the mainland, while Steller's...
separate) Ushakov Island (Russian Arctic) halfway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya WrangelIsland Herald Island Five new islands were discovered...
Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and WrangelIsland to the east. This sea borders on the...
of Kotelni Island – the Northern limit of Laptev Sea. From the Northern extremity of Kotelni Island to the Northern point of WrangelIsland – the Northern...
is to pass to the east of WrangelIsland and the Chukchi Peninsula, the easternmost part of Russian Siberia. (WrangelIsland lies directly on the meridian...
Lake Baikal Kamchatka Mountains of Altai Sikhote-Alin Uvs Nuur Basin WrangelIsland Putorana Plateau Lena Pillars Dauria The United Nations Educational...
Station State Nature Reserve “WrangelIsland "Ministry of Natural Resources of the russian Federation – History of WrangelIsland". Archived from the original...
Pleistocene-Holocene, with the last population of mammoths persisting on WrangelIsland until around 4,000 years ago. Deinotherium Embrithopoda Eritherium azzouzorum...
(Antarctica), a mountain in Antarctica Berry Peak, highest point of WrangelIsland Mount Berry Mall, Rome, Georgia, United States This disambiguation page...
miles with the ice, passing north of WrangelIsland. In May 1881 it approached Jeannette Island and Henrietta Island. According to The Annual Report of...
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