The last Woolly Mammoth died on Wrangel Island?

Mammoth is a term used to describe the various species and subspecies from the now extinct genus elephantid mammuthus that existed from the Pliocene epoch (around 5 million years ago) through to the early Holocene between (3700 and 4000 years ago).

Mammoths once roamed the continents of North America, Africa, Europe and Asia, but most species died out along with many megafauna around the time of the last ice age during the last glacial retreat some 10,500 years ago.

Various theories have been proposed to explain why the mammoth vanished, from climatic events causing rising sea levels, great cosmic catastrophes (pdf), infectious diseases, changes in fauna and habitats, to the spread of humans hunting the mammoth. There is no definitive explanation, but it could be one, a combination of some, or all the theories suggested.

Some small groups of mammoth genus survived the mass extinction in isolated pockets, with the most widely known being woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius). The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans across Eurasia and North America, where Neolithic hunters used their bones and tusks for making art, weapons, tools, dwellings, and food.

The woolly mammoth is among the best-studied of any prehistoric animal because of frozen carcasses in Siberia and Alaska, as well as skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, dung, and depictions from life in prehistoric cave paintings.

It disappeared from the mainland around 10,000 years ago, but continued to survive on Saint Paul Island (Bering Sea, Alaska) until 3,750 BC[1] and the last known population on Wrangel Island around 2000 BC[2]. Wrangel Island is located on the extreme north-eastern fringes of Russia.

So, you might think, it's a shame that such majestic creatures have disappeared forever. That is not entirely true, because scientists are busy trying to clone mammoths, hoping that in the forseeable future, mammoths will roam their icy worlds again.

[1] Graham et al: Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 2016. See here. 
[2] Arppe et al: Thriving or surviving? The isotopic record of the Wrangel Island woolly mammoth population in Quaternary Science Reviews - 2019