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Wrangel Island
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 Alexander Archipelago, south of the mouth of the Stikine River. It was occupied in 1834 by Russians, who named it for the Russian explorer Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel. 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. Lumbering, fishing, and mining are pursued in the area.
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State gives away the store again. (Wrangel Island, Alaska)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/29/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...Soviets made the island part of Gulag...ceded its claim to Wrangel or four smaller islands nearby that were...formally claimed those islands." History shows otherwise. Wrangel, located about...that claimed the island on August 12...claim to the islands." The U.S...relinquished ...
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BEARING UP IN SIBERIA; What's it worth to catch a glimpse of a mother polar bear and her cubs? On Wrangel Island, polar pursuers brave arctic winds, subzero temperatures and bare-bones lodging.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/28/1993; ; 700+ words
; Had Commodore Robert Peary first spent 10 days on Wrangel Island hiding in a snow blind in subzero temperatures in...zoologist Nikita Ovsianikov and two rangers of the Wrangel Island Nature Reserve, Leonid Bove and Grisha Kaurzin...
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Backgrounder: World Heritage site: Natural System of Wrangel IslandReserve of Russian Federation
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/3/2004; 398 words
; ...Heritage site: Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve of Russian Federation SUZHOU...Xinhua) - Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve of the Russian Federation...square kilometer mountainous Wrangel Island, 11-square kilometer...
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MEETING SCHEDULED MAY 30 ON FIR ISLAND SNOW GOOSE MANAGEMENT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/16/2006; 487 words
; ...discuss a draft management plan for Wrangel Island snow geese and Fir Island hunts...destination of snow geese migrating from Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia...80,000 geese, and the entire Wrangel Island population totals about...
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3 men rescued from Russian arctic island
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/1/1998; 700+ words
; ...stranded on a remote Russian island above the Arctic Circle for...International SOS, landed on frozen Wrangel Island, company spokesman...a port about 70 miles from Wrangel Island in the East Siberian...mainland across the ice pack from Wrangel Island, waiting for a break...
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Helicopter rescues TV crew trapped on Arctic island
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/1/1998; ; 578 words
; ...stranded for weeks on a remote island by bad weather. The helicopter...The crew was airlifted from Wrangel Island to the port of Pevek...twilight. The temperature on Wrangel Island has been around minus...The film crew arrived on Wrangel Island on Sept. 2 and intended...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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'DWARF' WOOLLY MAMMOTHS TRACKED AT ARCTIC ISLAND.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/25/1993; 536 words
; ...the world on a remote Arctic island, survived the extinction of...tooth and bone fragments, on Wrangel Island, a Russian possession...ago. The mammoth teeth from Wrangel Island are up to 25 percent...S.L. Vartanyan of the Wrangel Island State Reserve, Dr...
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MEETING SCHEDULED OCT. 30 ON FIR ISLAND SNOW GOOSE MANAGEMENT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/24/2006; 459 words
; ...can offer their views on Fir Island snow goose management during...together with hunters and Fir Island residents to begin putting...of snow geese migrating from Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia...000 geese, and the entire Wrangel Island population totals about...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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FGN: Aussie cameraman rescued from Siberian island
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/1/1998; 660 words
; ...rescue helicopter to land on Wrangel Island, where Victorian Rory...Nikita Ovsyannikov had been on Wrangel Island since September 2...threatened to strand them on the island until March. Blizzards and strong winds have struck the island in recent weeks, sending...out, and residents ...
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Rescued TV Crew Thinner, Healthy; 3 Lifted by Copter Off Island in Arctic
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/2/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...blizzards on a desolate Russian island above the Arctic Circle mostly sat...blizzards raged across the mountains of Wrangel Island in the East Siberian Sea. The two...southwestern tip of the island. Wrangel Island is one of the world's richest...
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Wrangel Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wrangel Island or Wrangell Island , Rus. Ostrov Vrangelya...sought by Russian Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel during his arctic expedition of 1820...American whaling ship, who named it for Wrangel. Later George W. De Long, an American...
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Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel , 1796-1870, Russian naval officer, arctic explorer, and...critical of the sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867. Several islands are named for him. His diaries of his arctic expedition have...
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Wrangell Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wrangell Island , 30 mi (48 km) long and 5 to 14 mi (8.1-22.5 km) wide, off...by Russians, who named it for the Russian explorer Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel. The city of Wrangell, on the northern coast, grew around a fort built...
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Arctic Ocean
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...From the shelf rise numerous islands, including the Arctic Archipelago...Novaya Zemlya , the New Siberian Islands , and Wrangel Island . The continental shelf encloses...off Greenland and Ellesmere Island (in the Arctic Archipelago...
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Litke, Fyodor Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to survey the little-known islands of the central Pacific and...Pribilof Ostrova, and Matveyev Islands and also the Chukchi coast...discovering twelve previously unknown islands, describing the entire archipelago...57 (1888), app. 2; F. Wrangel, “ Graf Fyodor Petrovich...
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