Wrangel boasts such an astonishing abundance of wildlife that biologists would later call it the Galápagos of the Far North. The island supports the largest population of Pacific walruses as well as one of the most extensive snowgoose colonies on earth. It is also home to snowy owls, Arctic foxes, and massive populations of lemmings and seabirds—yet in pleasant contrast to the Siberian mainland, there are no mosquitoes.)
