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	Wrangel Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrangel Island (Russian: Остров Врангеля Ostrov Vrangelya) is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas, and belonging to the Russian Federation.
		The island is a breeding ground for polar bears (having the highest density of their dens in the world), seals and lemmings.
		The island is named for Baron Ferdinand Wrangel (1797–1870) who, after hearing of stories of an island at Wrangel Island's coordinates from some Chukchi, set off on an expedition (1820–1824) to discover the island, with no success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrangel_Island (808 words)

	Ferdinand von Wrangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, in Russian: Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' (Фердинанд Петрович Врангель), (December 29, 1796 (January 9, 1797), Pskov, Russia — May 25 (June 6), 1870, Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia)) was a Russian admiral, explorer, Honorable Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St.Petersburg (1855), one of the founders of the Russian Geographic Society.
		Even though it was unsuccessful the island was later named Wrangel Island to honour him and his endeavor.
		Wrangell, Alaska, a city on Wrangell Island and one of the oldest non-native settlements in Alaska
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Petrovich_Wrangel (457 words)

	Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel was not glaciated during the Quaternary Ice Age resulting in exceptionally high levels of biodiversity for this region.
		The island boasts the world’s largest population of Pacific walrus and the highest density of ancestral polar bear dens.
		Furthermore, the process is continuing as can be observed in, for example, the unusually high densities and distinct behaviours of the Wrangel lemming populations in comparison with other Arctic populations or in the physical adaptations of the Wrangel Island reindeers, where they may now have evolved into a separate population from their mainland cousins.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1023 (458 words)

	Mammoths on Wrangel Island
		Wrangel Island is located on the border of the East-Siberian and Chukchi Seas, between 70° and 72°N, and 177°E and 176°W (Fig.
		Numerous solifluction and other slope sediments of the mountainous part of the island, river-valley alluvium (floodplain and the first terraces of large rivers), and peat and lacustrine thermokarst sediments are widespread on the plains and intermontane depressions, and are of Holocene age.
		Later, 2 teeth and 1 tusk from Wrangel Island were dated at The University of Arizona Radiocarbon Laboratory (AA) (Long, Sher and Vartanyan 1994) and by L. Sulerzhitsky in the laboratory of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN).
	www.radiocarbon.org /Journal/v37n1/vartanyan.html (2159 words)

	Travel East Russia - Wrangel Island
		Wrangel Island is associated with polar bears primarily and is the only Asian island where Wrangle Island snow geese nest.
		Wrangel island straddles the 180 degree meridian with half of its territory in the Western Hemisphere and the other half in the Eastern.
		The islands lie north of the Arctic Circle and are bisected by the 71 degree parallel.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /wrangel.html (874 words)

	Wrangel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel Island lies in the Arctic Ocean 200 km N of the coast of eastern Siberia.
		Members of the crew claimed the island for Canada, and the expedition's commander, Vilhjalmur STEFANSSON, who had never seen it, conceived the idea that it might become the centre of a northern empire - the base to the riches of the polar basin - and should be Canadian territory.
		In 1922 the Canadian government claimed the island, but after protests from the Soviet government the claim was quickly dropped.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0008721 (139 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wrangel Island
		Wrangel Island (Russian, Ostrov Vrangelya), island, extreme north-eastern Russia, in the Arctic Ocean, between the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi...
		The principal island possessions of Russia lie in Arctic and Pacific waters.
		The islands of the Arctic Ocean lie on the continental shelves.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wrangel_Island.html (117 words)

	Late Pleistocene Glacial and Sea Level History of Wrangel Island, Northeast Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel Island is the focus of this research because it would have been affected both directly and indirectly by a regional ice sheet; or it may have only been host to small valley glaciers.
		The purpose of the 2001 field season was to map the glacial geology of the major valleys of the central mountain range and establish a numerical chronology of glaciation, with emphasis on determining the age and extent of glaciation during the LGM.
		Vartanyan, S.L., Garutt, V.E., and Sher, A.V. Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic.
	faculty.washington.edu /lyn4/wrangel.htm (1593 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wrangel Island (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The island is a breeding ground for polar bears, polar foxes, seals, and lemmings.
		The island was sought by Russian Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel during his arctic expedition of 1820–24; he had heard of it from Siberian natives, but he did not succeed in finding it.
		In 1911 a group of Russians made a landing on the island, and in 1921 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canadian explorer, sent a small party to Wrangel with a view to claiming it for Great Britain.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WrangelI.html (377 words)

	ipedia.com: Wrangel Island Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel Island is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas, and belonging to the Russian Federation.
		Wrangel Island (Russian: Ostrov Vrangelya) is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas, and belonging to the Russian Federation.
		In 1911, a group of Russians made a landing on the island, and in 1921 Vilhjalmur Stefansson sent a small party to claim the island for the United Kingdom.
	www.ipedia.com /wrangel_island.html (268 words)

	International Wolf Center
		Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve, established in 1976, includes not only the 1,800 square mile island itself, but also an expanse of sea extending 40 miles from shore.
		Wrangel Island is also home to bearded and ringed seals, walruses, gray whales, polar foxes and a myriad of arctic birds-snowy owls, snow geese and sea birds.
		Throughout the island's history, wolves occasionally crossed the frozen sea from the mainland, but no viable packs settled on Wrangel Island until 1980, when a pair of adults with their pups were discovered along with evidence of regular successful hunts on reindeer.
	www.wolf.org /wolf/learn/iwmag/2001/summer2001/sum2001w1.asp (1679 words)

	World Adventurer \| Wrangel Island: isolation, desolation and tragedy
		After a couple of abortive attempts at settlement and protracted diplomatic argument, Wrangel Island is now occupied by a small team of Russian scientists and their supporting community who maintain a meteorological and research base at Ushakovskoye on the Southern coast.
		A good part of the reason Wrangel Island was chosen for this extreme survival exercise is the abundance of wildlife.
		Ironically, Wrangel Island also escaped glaciation in the last Ice Age, leaving several unique species of vascular plants and was probably the last place on Earth to support a woolly mammoth population.
	www.worldadventurer.net /issue1/wrangel.html (804 words)

	Wrangel Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Wrangel Island is part of the region of Arctic tundra, much of it low-lying lichen.
		Wrangel Island is part of the region of Arctic tundra,...
		Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast was named in his honour.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077535 (725 words)

	Run For Wrangel Island
		Wrangel Island lies in the Chukchi Sea at the extreme north-eastern corner of Russia 87 miles off the Siberian mainland.
		Wrangel, along with Herald Island are the only two significant land masses in the vast marine region north of Siberia.
		We were met by a few scientists from the island who could hardly believe their eyes as we waded on shore and made our way up onto the island.
	www.eglinpix.com /wrangel.htm (1495 words)

	Wrangel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel Island is truly unique among all the many wonderful places in the Arctic.
		In Soviet times there was a village of Ushakovskoye on Wrangel Island with a population of one thousand.
		Wrangel Island has never seen any organized tourism and is rarely visited by tourists.
	www.canadianarcticholidays.ca /file79.htm (500 words)

	The Voice of Russia (People and events: Russia in Personalities)
		Ferdinand Wrangel was born in 1796 in Pskov in to the family of a nobleman.
		Wrangel's grand-father was a chamberlain at the Imperial Court.
		Wrangel's parents, left without means of subsistence, soon died and Ferdinand was brought up by his relatives.
	www.vor.ru /Events/program8.html (578 words)

	International Wolf Center
		Although Wrangel Island's terrestrial and marine ecosystems contain an extraordinary concentration of wildlife, the wolf has been missing for 30 years since being extirpated by the Soviet government to protect the musk oxen and reindeer.
		He noted that during his stay on Wrangel he was unable to travel around the island in search of wolves as much as he would have liked.
		It is also possible the wolves raised their pups in eastern Wrangel Island, where large herds of reindeer moved in spring 2001.
	www.wolf.org /wolf/learn/iwmag/2002/spring2002/spr2002a5.asp (542 words)

	Arctic Tours Russian Far East & Wrangel Island - Victory Adventure Travel [ arctic tours, arctic expeditions ]
		Wrangel Island was discovered in 1820 by Baron Ferdinand Wrangel, though he did not set foot on shore; it apeared as a fata morgana – an optical illusion, caused by temperature inversion, that made the island appear to hover upside down on the horizon (an effect we may see on our voyage).
		A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wrangel Island has the Arctic’s largest winter population of denning polar bears and the world’s main concentration of walrus.
		In 1992, a tooth was discovered on Wrangel apparently belonging to one of the last mammoths, which roamed here just 3,600 years ago.
	www.victory-cruises.com /arctic_wrangelisland.html (1261 words)

	Quaternary Research Center
		Wrangel Island (71º 10' N., 180º) is a key region for such an investigation.
		Previous work on the paleoenvironmental history of the island includes an investigation of the Holocene mammoths (Vartanyan et al., 1993) as well as late Pleistocene and modern lacustrine pollen records (Lozhkin et al., 2001).
		Detailed fieldwork on Wrangel Island provides the first field evidence to adequately test the hypothesis of the existence of an East Siberian Ice Sheet during the LGM and earlier times.
	depts.washington.edu /qrc/nonglacier.html (812 words)

	ARCTIC ADVENTURES: Russia's Far East and Wrangel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thrill at historic sites of early exploration, visit some of the world's most northerly peoples and be among the few to ever have visited Wrangel Island, a world famous nature reserve surrounded by the formidable ice of the East Siberian Sea.
		Your expedition leader calls all hands on deck as we pass the island of Big Diomede, a last outpost of Russia, located directly next to the International Date Line, which also marks the boundary between Russia and the United States.
		Wrangel Island was discovered in 1820 by Baron Ferdinand Wrangel, though he did not set foot on shore; it appeared as a Fata Morgana - an optical illusion, caused by temperature inversion, that made the island appear to hover upside down on the horizon (an effect we may see on our voyage).
	www.rei.com /adventures/trips/antarctica/arctic_russia.jsp (2147 words)

	Wrangell Island
		The city of Wrangell, on the northern coast, grew around a fort built to prevent encroachment by the Hudson's Bay Company traders.
		From 1867 to 1877 it was a U.S. military post; later it became an outfitting point for hunters and explorers as well as for miners using the Stikine River route to the Yukon.
		Wrangel Island - Wrangel Island or Wrangell Island, Rus.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0852774.html (212 words)

	Natural History: Mammoth Prospecting - researchers on Wrangell Island research the possibility of viruses causing ...
		Because Wrangel's mammoths were such late survivors, we thought that if a deadly virus could be detected, their fossil remains would be the likeliest to have retained traces of it.
		Getting to Wrangel was not easy--after flying from New York to Saint Petersburg and taking a series of trains and buses to a military base in a Moscow suburb, we boarded an Ilyushin turboprop for a ten-hour flight to the Siberian coastal settlement of Mys Shmidta, a hundred sea miles south of our goal.
		Once on Wrangel, we took an excruciating four-hour truck ride up riverbeds and made camp on the north side of the island in an eight-by-seventeen-foot cabin that sheltered the five of us, all our gear, all our food, and all the fossils we would collect.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_107/ai_53378977 (852 words)

	Squidly.com: Wrangel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's the tiny islands, obscure countries and remote settlements.
		There are other stories as well, of heroism and research: The Heroine of Wrangel Island.
		Adventure excursions to the island are available today for just under 10 grand, but I think I'll continue to "enjoy" Wrangel from the warm comfort of my own home.
	www.squidly.com /archives/003394.php (515 words)

	1998MarsPapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wrangel is a sizeable island lying about 90 miles off of Cape Jakan off the Chukchi Peninsula and not far from the northwest coast of Alaska.
		Wrangel Island was known by Native peoples of the Arctic and was a waypoint on the proto-historic route to Point Hope, Alaska, an early center of Arctic civilization.
		Wrangel, in the employ of Imperial Russia, testing the theory of a high northern continent, never actually saw the island.
	www.marssociety.org /content/proceedings1998/mar98009.htm (5154 words)

	The American Museum of Natural History
		The first was to recover material of mammoths and other extinct species that lived on the island during the Quaternary [the geologic period spanning the past 1.6 million years].
		In the case of the Wrangel Island mammoths, we are attempting first to find evidence of the presence of their own (or "host") DNA.
		If that turns out to be well-preserved, then we have some hope that we will be able to search for "contaminant" genetic material -- i.e., the genetic code of pathogenic organisms present in the mammoth's tissues when they died.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/expeditions/siberia/objectbody.html (325 words)

	Stories in the News - Ketchikan, Alaska - June Allen
		The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes, ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the world.
		The lesser-known Wrangel Island, however, spelled with one L, was said to have been named in a younger Wrangel's honor years before his Alaska governorship, when he was part of a Russian exploration party that sighted it.
		As she stood helplessly on the island, hoping for rescue, she was terribly worried about her little boy, Bennett, who was being treated for tuberculosis in a Nome mission hospital.
	www.sitnews.net /JuneAllen/AdaBlackjack/020204_heroine.html (2036 words)

	Wrangel Island
		island, 1,740 sq mi (4,507 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, between the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea, off NE Russia.
		Wrangell Island - Wrangell Island, 30 mi (48 km) long and 5 to 14 mi (8.1–22.5 km) wide, off SE Alaska in the...
		Chukchi Sea - Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean N of the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, Wrangell...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0852772.html (340 words)

	Mammoth Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mammoths on Wrangel Island Until 2000 BC Okay, it may not quite be tabloid material, but Volume 37, Number 1 of Radiocarbon will publish the latest study by S. Vartanyan et al.
		The finds were remarkable for two reasons: they indicated mammoth survival on Wrangel Island for as much as 5000 years after the last known date of mammoths on the Eurasian continent, and they documented the evolution of a distinct dwarf mammoth population on Wrangel Island.
		present 23 dates on Wrangel Island mammoth remains, with dates ranging from about 20,000 BP to (calibrated) 2100 BC, and they describe the sample preparation techniques and interlaboratory correlations that support the validity of these dates.
	dwb.unl.edu /Teacher/NSF/C03/C03Links/www.radiocarbon.org/mammoths.html (317 words)

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