Wrangel Island
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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
Wrangel Island in October 2018
Polar bear on Wrangel Island
Arctic tundra on Wrangel Island
Woolly mammoth and muskox remains displayed on Wrangel Island, where mammoths survived until 4,000 years ago
Ada Blackjack
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Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic expedition to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, eventually living alone on the island for eight months after the other expe
Wrangel Island
…Stefansson sent five settlers (the Canadian Allan Crawford, three Americans: Fred Maurer, Lorne Knight and Milton Galle, and Iñupiat seamstress and cook Ada Blackjack) to the island in a speculative attempt to claim it for Canada. The explorers were handpicked by Stefansson based upon their previous experience and…
Ada Blackjack with her son Bennett, 1923
Crawford, Maurer and Knight. Picture taken in Seattle just before party sailed for Nome
1921 Wrangel Island Expedition team
Building of a snowhouse