Tag: chukchi sea
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Less visited than most, Herald Island holds unexpected histories
Few pieces of land have entered history so decisively by refusing rescue. In the high Arctic, north of the Siberian mainland and west of Wrangel Island, Herald Island rises from the Chukchi Sea as a dark, abrupt mass of rock and ice, small on the map and forbidding in reality. It belongs to Russia’s Chukotka…