Located in the Arctic Ocean off the Siberian coast, Wrangel Island is thought to be the last known location for wooly mammoths.
Research indicates that the mammoths were inhabiting the island as late as 2000 BC, which is nearly 5,000 years after they are thought to have gone extinct on the mainland.
Today, Wrangel Island is home to a weather station and to Chukchi (indigenous Arctic) fishing villages.
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