the Arctic 1921: Wrangel Island Fiasco
31 October 1921
31 Oct 1921
Claiming the Far North
1818–1875 Partitioning the North Pacific
1875–1939 Claiming the Far North
1939–1945 World War II in the Arctic
1945–pres The Arctic Transformed
Wrangel Island Fiasco
9 Oct 1882 First International Polar Year
5 Aug 1892 Opening up Greenland
13 Jun 1898 Klondike Gold Rush
7 Jun 1905 Norwegian Independence
6 Apr 1909 Race to the North Pole
6 Apr 1917 Great War and the Arctic
21 Aug 1918 Allied Intervention in Russia
6 Apr 1920 Far Eastern Republic
31 Oct 1921 Wrangel Island Fiasco
20 Jan 1925 Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty
14 May 1926 Arctic Flights
12 Jul 1932 Erik the Red's Land
While Soviet Russia faced off against the Japanese in the Far East, the Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson led an expedition to attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island for Canada and the British Empire. Stefansson's settlement lasted a little over a year before being replaced by an American effort, which was in turn dislodged when the Soviets reasserted their claim to the island in 1924.
