In the Land of the Polar Bears

Feb 05, 1985 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

A rare look at the beautiful and desolate Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast of Alaska-as seen through the eyes of Soviet Filmmaker and naturalist Yuri Ledin. Wrangel Island is not only the home to Siberian snow geese, polar f... (more)oxes and walruses, but serves as the world's largest denning area for polar bears.

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