Wrangel island

 Views up the Kishchnikov River drainage, Wrangel Island

Triassic turbidites on Wrangel with polar bear for scale

The Siberian mainland lies 88 miles to the south.

The Artful Dodgers of Wrangel Island, arctic foxes steal as many as 40 snow goose eggs a day and cache them for their pups.

Muskoxen—more akin to goats and sheep than to oxen—were introduced to Wrangel Island in 1975 and now number about 800. 

A feisty fox drives a snow goose from her nest, a gambit before an act of egg thievery. 

A mother polar bear and her two cubs search for prey. Wrangel Island has been called the world’s polar bear maternity ward

Wrangel’s sprawling gravel spits are home to large haul-outs of Pacific walruses, especially since climate change has made their preferred habitat—the ice pack—ever more tenuous.

Most of the year polar bears rarely congregate.

The summer thaw delivers plentiful food, like this washed-up walrus, to the bears of Wrangel Island.

An arctic fox pup, just beginning to show its white winter coat, plays with a lemming carcass.

In August fledgling snowy owls begin to fly—sometimes with laughable results.

Two bull muskoxen size each other up.

Sergey Gorshkov's Wrangel Island

An adult male polar bear marooned ashore on Wrangel Island in the Russian High Arctic, due to lack of sea ice.

Wrangel Island, Russia pollution view population of the geese nest on Wrangel Island

Arctic Flowering Plants Wrangel Island 

Wrangel Island

Polar bear on Wrangel Island, Russian High Arctic

Cliffs of Wrangel Island

Arctic Tundra, Frost-Wedging Features, Thawing Permafrost,Wrangel Island,

Stranded ashore on Wrangel Island due to lack of sea ice, a thirsty adult male polar bear "drinks" by eating snow on a hot summer day.

Near Wrangel Island

Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve

Arctic Sunset Birding Cliffs Landscape Wrangel Island 

Wrangel Island

Arctic Sunset Guillemots Bird Rafts Chukchi Sea Wrangel Island UNESCO World Heritage Site Russia

Ice Raft Chukchi Sea Wrangel Island 

Landscape Wrangel Island

Arctic Flowering Plants Wrangel Island

Cloudscape Wrangel Island

Arctic Tundra Cotton Grasses Wrangel Island

 Scientific Research Station Wrangel Island

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