Kola Peninsula

/ ˈkəʊlə /

noun

1. a peninsula in NW Russia, between the Barents and White Seas: forms most of the Murmansk region. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

The Arctic Kola Peninsula hosts Russia’s Northern Fleet, with advanced land, air and naval assets, including some of its nuclear arsenal.

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It then continued its journey around the Kola Peninsula and docked in Tromsø, Norway.

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In 2020-21, it shut down facilities on the Kola Peninsula, eliminating its emissions on the border area with Norway.

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The Nordic country borders the Kola Peninsula, home to most of Russia's nuclear weapons as well as its Northern Fleet, which operates Russia's nuclear submarines.

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An Indigenous people, the Sámi, who number around 80,000, inhabit a vast territory that stretches across the Arctic areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia’s Kola Peninsula.

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