@placesoftheplanet: Wrangel Island is one of the most remote and isolated places in Russia, located in the Chukchi Sea off the northeastern coast of the country. Situated deep inside the Arctic, the island covers around 7,600 km² and has no permanent population, making it one of the few places where vast areas of wilderness remain almost completely untouched. Despite its harsh Arctic environment, Wrangel Island supports an incredible amount of wildlife. It is one of the most important polar bear breeding areas in the world and is also home to Arctic foxes, reindeer, walruses and huge colonies of seabirds. The island’s surrounding waters are also important habitats for marine mammals. Wrangel Island is particularly famous for its connection to woolly mammoths. While mammoths disappeared from most of the world thousands of years earlier, a population survived on Wrangel Island until around 4,000 years ago. This means mammoths were still alive on the island around the same time that ancient civilisations were developing elsewhere in the world. The island is now protected as part of the Wrangel Island Nature Reserve and has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its exceptional Arctic ecosystems and wildlife. Its extreme isolation, harsh climate and lack of permanent residents have helped preserve one of the most remarkable wilderness areas on Earth. #hiddenplaces #placesoftheplanet #naturelovers #russia #naturebeauty

Diaa :

wrangel island baddies

Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein :

It feels like Iceland 🇮🇸

𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚™ :

is this related to wrangel st elias

I turned it down :

Peaceful

Wil🇦🇺 :

I’d live there in my last few years ngl

Renn Johnston :

Awesome, don't touch it. leave it alone

hello467392 :

Let’s build 100 data centers on it

Nightingale :

Wish Russia stopped it's isolation. I would love to travel it someday.

romik 🫸 🏳️‍⚧️ :

Bigger than Texas btw

alguien sin mas :

what animal its that?

qwerty_l29 :

i love russia

cte :

Господи какая же у нас красивая планета

Just a ducquakquak :

I was like oooo solitude…. Then the polar bears. So ima let the polar bears have this.

E t h y r :

lets build a datacenter there tho??

🇦🇹Maher;)ماهر🇸🇾 :

Are those in the picture python bulls?

Joyan :

4/6 that path indeed was a good place to see back then, where hundred of mammoths used to ealkt

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мечта

Placesoftheplanet :

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Rafale :

wheres arthurs pass bro

Bat Man :

How was something so big like woolly mammoths able to find food in that small tundra island and been able to survive up until 4,000 years ago? They must’ve been about as big as the musk ox in that island imo🦣🧊🏔️

Geeked for Dahyun/Leon Kennedy :

ONLY 4K YEARS AGO?

KyrgyzstaniAirLover :

hmm mammoths

Supers122 :