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Wrangel Island sits astride the 180th meridian between the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea. It lies separated from the Siberian mainland by the De Long Strait with Herald Island as its closest land to the east.
Cossack Sergeant Stepan Andreyev claimed to have sighted Wrangel Island in 1764. His report noted native accounts that it was called Tikegen and inhabited by people known as the Krahay.
About 500 to 1,000 mammoths were isolated on Wrangel Island and continued to survive for another 6,000 years after their mainland relatives disappeared. Research published in 2017 suggested this population experienced a genetic meltdown while a later study published in 2024 disputed these conclusions.
The group included Canadian Allan Crawford three Americans named Fred Maurer Lorne Knight and Milton Galle and Iñupiat seamstress Ada Blackjack. They were handpicked based upon previous experience and academic credentials for a speculative attempt to claim the island for Canada.
Gora Sovetskaya reaches an elevation of 3,100 feet above mean sea level within the Tsentral'nye Mountain Range. This central belt of low-relief mountains runs east-west across the island.
Natural complex Wrangel Island Reserve was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2004. Resolution 189 of Council of Ministers Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted the 23rd of March 1976 established state Nature Reserve Wrangel Island.