Taimyr Peninsula

American  

[tahy-meer, tahy-mir] / taɪˈmɪər, taɪˈmɪr /

Or Taimir Peninsula

noun

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

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Taimyr Peninsula British  

/ tajˈmir /

noun

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

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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.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2019

The DNA was analysed from a small wolf bone found by Dr Dalen on the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia which was radiocarbon dated to be 35,000 years old.

From BBC • May 21, 2015

But our destination was Maria Pronchishcheva Bay, half-way up the Taimyr Peninsula.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2013

Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive