UNESCO
Nature Reserve
Barguzinsky
Russia
RussiaSable · Baikal Seal
See parkThe last place on the planet where woolly mammoths survived, until barely 4,000 years ago, long after they had died out everywhere else
Area
7,670 km²
Designated in
1976
Region
Russian Arctic (Chukotka)
Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic was the last place on the planet where a population of woolly mammoth survived, cut off from the mainland by rising sea levels after the last ice age, until it finally died out barely 4,000 years ago — millennia after the species had disappeared from the rest of the world. It now holds the highest known density of polar bear maternity dens on the planet.
Ecosystems found in Russia, where Wrangel Island lies.
Which other parks are like this one?
Same country: Russia
Same country: Russia
Same country: Russia
Same country: Russia
Based on what we already know about this park.
Climate
Tropical, Temperate, Polar / cold
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