Ada Blackjack, an Alaskan Inuit, was a 23-year-old single mother with a sick child and desperate to earn a living when she was hired to join an exploratory expedition to Wrangel Island, in the Arctic ...

“He did not show any signs of joy,” Burt McConnell wrote of his first sighting of a human on the shore of Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle. McConnell stood aboard the King ...

Wrangel Island, 400 miles northwest of Bering Strait, is a forbidding mass of naked granite rock (35×70 miles), rising more than 2,000 ft. out of the Arctic Ocean. A dreary and blizzard-swept place, ...

The species survived on an island north of Siberia for thousands of years, scientists reported, but were most likely plagued by genetic abnormalities. By Carl Zimmer For millions of years, mammoths ...

ST. PETERSBURG, October 28. /TASS/. Russian scientists during the Polar Bear Census expedition counted the population on the Wrangel Island using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This method was used ...

Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman, was the only surviving member of an expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921. Ada was employed as a seamstress and cook for four explorers, who hoped to ...

On September 3, the vessel left Arkhangelsk on an expedition along the Northern Sea Route to Chukotka ARKHANGELSK, October 28. /TASS/. The Mikhail Somov scientific expedition vessel reached the voyage ...