Wrangel Island
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Area
8K km²
Coordinates
71.2300, -179.4000
Category
islands
Overview
A remote Arctic reserve where woolly mammoths survived until ~4,000 years ago.
About
Wrangel Island 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 keep the island, as well as the Chukchi Peninsula on the Russian mainland, on the same day as the rest of Russia.
More about Wrangel Island
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