Wrangel Island love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An island of northeast Russia in the Arctic Ocean northwest of the Bering Strait. It is named in honor of Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (1796–1870), a Russian explorer who made an unsuccessful attempt to locate the island (1820–1824).

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  • proper noun an island in Russia in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea.

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