Wrangel Island was declared a zapovednik—a federally ... Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s almost every exploring expedition that blundered anywhere near Wrangel ended up with the adjective ...

after the failure of the expedition in which she participated and which in 1921 tried to claim the island for Canada. Beyond its natural beauty and its rich Arctic fauna, Wrangel holds a fascinating ...

Two years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a ...

"In compliance with an order from the Russian Federation’s Defense Ministry, such works continue on the Wrangel Island for a few years already. This year, the expedition began in August and was ...

10,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, a unique population of mammoths began to emerge. Scientists published their findings in the journal "Cell," speculating how these ...

The wilderness of Wrangel Island lies about 100 miles north of ... In 2011 the production team joined a joint scientific expedition to hunt for the remains of new mammoth specimens.

The remains, a small fragment of a femur bone, were discovered in a cave near Alaska’s Wrangell Island during an expedition by the U.S. Forest Service and University of South Dakota in 2003. Initially ...

ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. /TASS/. Russian scientists during the Polar Bear Census expedition counted the population on the Wrangel Island using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This method was ...