Wrangel Island
Wrangel Island is an Arctic island in Chukotka in the Russian Far East. For its rare Arctic tundra ecosystem, home to over 400 rare plant species and large quantities of charismatic megafauna, including Pacific walruses, polar bears, and grey whales, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in East Siberian and Chukotka Seas, Russia
- Also known as: “Ostrov Vrangelya”
Wrangel Island
- Categories: World Heritage Site and landform
- Location: Chukotka, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Wrangel Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wrangeleiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة رانجل”
- Armenian: “Վրանգելի կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Vrangel adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Vrangel”
- Basque: “Wrangel uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Урангеля”
- Bengali: “ভ্রাংগেল দ্বীপ”
- Bulgarian: “Врангел”
- Catalan: “illa de Wrangel”
- Catalan: “Illa de Wrangel”
- Catalan: “Illa Wrangel”
- Cebuano: “Wrangel Island (pulo sa Rusya)”
- Cebuano: “Wrangel Island”
- Chinese: “Wrangel Tó”
- Chinese: “弗兰格尔岛”
- Chinese: “弗兰格尔岛自然保护区”
- Chinese: “弗蘭格爾島”
- Croatian: “Otok Wrangel”
- Croatian: “Vrangelov otok”
- Croatian: “Wrangelov otok”
- Czech: “Wrangelův ostrov”
- Danish: “Wrangel-øen”
- Danish: “Wrangeløen”
- Dutch: “Wrangel (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Wrangel eiland”
- Dutch: “Wrangel-eiland”
- Dutch: “Wrangel”
- Dutch: “Wrangeleiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره رانجل”
- Esperanto: “Vrangela Insulo de Siberio”
- Estonian: “Kelletti maa”
- Estonian: “Ploveri saar”
- Estonian: “Wrangeli saar”
- Finnish: “Vrangelinsaari”
- Finnish: “Wrangelin saari”
- Finnish: “Wrangelinsaari”
- French: “Île de Wrangel”
- French: “Ile Wrangel”
- French: “île Wrangel”
- French: “Île Wrangel”
- French: “Réserve du système naturel de l’île Wrangel”
- French: “Système naturel de la Réserve de l’île Wrangel”
- Galician: “Wrangel”
- Georgian: “ვრანგელის კუნძული”
- German: “Wrangel-Insel”
- German: “Wrangelinsel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Βράνγκελ”
- Hebrew: “וראנגל”
- Hebrew: “ורנגל”
- Hindi: “रैंगल द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Vrangel-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Wrangel eyja”
- Icelandic: “Wrangeleyja”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Wrangel”
- Inupiaq: “Umikiłiq”
- Irish: “Oileán Wrangel”
- Italian: “isola di Wrangel”
- Italian: “Isola di Wrangel”
- Italian: “Isola Wrangel”
- Japanese: “ウランゲリ島”
- Japanese: “ウランゲル島”
- Kirghiz: “Врангель аралы”
- Korean: “브란겔 섬”
- Korean: “브란겔랴 섬”
- Korean: “브란겔섬”
- Latin: “Insula Wrangelii”
- Latvian: “Vrangeļa sala”
- Lithuanian: “Vrangelio sala”
- Low German: “Wrangeleiland”
- Macedonian: “Врангелов Остров”
- Malayalam: “റാങ്കൽ ദ്വീപ്”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Wrangel”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Wrangel”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wrangel Tó”
- Mongolian: “Врангелийн арал”
- Northern Frisian: “Wrangeleilun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vrangeløya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wrangeløya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrov Vrangelja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vrangeløya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wrangeløya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Врангеля”
- Norwegian: “Vrangelja”
- Norwegian: “Vrangeløya”
- Persian: “جزیره ورانگل”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ ورانگل”
- Polish: “Wyspa Wrangla”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Wrangel”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Wrangel”
- Portuguese: “Ostrov Nakhodka”
- Portuguese: “Vrangelya”
- Portuguese: “Wrangell”
- Romanian: “Insula Vranghel”
- Russian: “Врангеля остров”
- Russian: “Врангеля”
- Russian: “Остров Врангеля”
- Serbian: “Vrangelovo ostrvo”
- Serbian: “Врангелово острво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wrangelov otok”
- Shona: “Chitsuwa cha Wirangeli”
- Slovak: “Wrangelov ostrov”
- Spanish: “Isla de Wrangel”
- Spanish: “Wrangel”
- Swedish: “Wrangelön”
- Swedish: “Wrangels ö”
- Tajik: “Ҷазираи Врангел”
- Tatar: “Врангель утравы”
- Thai: “เกาะแรงเกล”
- Turkish: “Vrangel Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Врангеля острів”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Врангеля”
- Uzbek: “Vrangel oroli”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Wrangel”
- Võro: “Wrangeli saar‘”
- Võro: “Wrangeli saar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Wrangel”
- Welsh: “Ynys Wrangel”
- Western Frisian: “Wrangel-eilân”
- Western Frisian: “Wrangel”
- Wu Chinese: “弗兰格尔岛”
- “Wrangeli saar”
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