Taymyr Peninsula
Britishnoun
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Scientists studied hillsides on Siberia’s Taymyr Peninsula, which borders the seas that open north into the Arctic Ocean.
From Washington Post
One centres on a big open-cast coal mining project in the Taymyr Peninsula, in the far north of central Siberia.
From BBC
He said Norilsk Nickel controlled access to the entire Taymyr Peninsula, where the incident happened, hampering investigators looking into pollution from its plants.
From BBC
In September 2012 an 11-year-old boy on Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula stumbled upon a well-preserved adolescent mammoth, after its limbs were protruding out of thawing ground.
From National Geographic
The researchers found the rib bone on a six-week expedition to Russia's Taymyr Peninsula in 2010, the northernmost part of mainland Eurasia.
From Nature
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