If something seems impossibly remote, you call it Siberia. And if Siberians want to make the analogy, they could call it Wrangel Island. About 90 miles off the coast of northeastern Siberia, the ...
Ahead of the release of Sam Raimi's "Send Help," revisit the stories of Alexander Selkirk, Marguerite de la Rocque, the Tongan castaways and others who endured in remote locales ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly ...
Two years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a ...
For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic gem in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's last woolly mammoths, sequestered on an Arctic Ocean island outpost, suffered from serious genetic defects caused by generations of inbreeding that may have hampered ...