She was eighty-five years old when she died in Palmer, Alaska, in 1983.

She had outlived everyone from the Wrangel Island expedition.

She had outlived Stefansson, who died in 1962.

She had outlived the specific debate about who owned Wrangel Island — the Soviets had settled that question by establishing a permanent presence in 1924 and the island remained Soviet, then Russian, territory.

The diaries that Dartmouth College eventually preserved — the same diaries Harold Noice had taken from her — recorded the daily texture of what surviving Wrangel Island had actually required.

The fox counts.