Taimyr Peninsula

Or Tai·mir Peninsula

[tahy-meer, tahy-mir]

noun

1. a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.

Taimyr Peninsula

/ tajˈmir /

noun

1. Also called: Taymyr Peninsula. a large peninsula of N central Russia, between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea

Example Sentences

The runners-up among the list of long-haulers are a herd of reindeer from the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia, which traveled nearly 750 miles per year.

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On his last flight, an engine and the radio gave out over the Taimyr Peninsula, a realm of featureless Siberian tundra far above the Arctic Circle.

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Savers - like the wild reindeer of Russia's Taimyr Peninsula - move for protection.

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They say that the animals, which live in the Taimyr Peninsula in the northernmost tip of Russia, are being affected by rising temperatures and human activity.

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Its vast furnaces were built on the Taimyr Peninsula, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, in the Soviet era.

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