Wrangel Island Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island in East Siberian and Chukotka Seas, Russia
About Wrangel Island
1764 was the first reported discovery of Wrangel Island by the Cossack Sergeant Stepan Andreyev. Calling it Tikegen Land, Andreyev found evidence of its inhabitants, the Krahay. Eventually, the island was named after Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797–1870), who, after reading Andreyev's report and hearing Chukchi stories of land at the island's coordinates, set off on an expedition (1820–1824) to discover the island, with no success. Since the mid 1800s there have been several landings and attempted landings on the island. Depending on the time of the year, access to the island can be manageable or virtually impossible. The first recorded landing on the island was in 1866 by a German whaler, Eduard Dallmann. Several expeditions in the later 19th and early 20th centuries proved fatal to the
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