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Taimyr Peninsula

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Tai·myr Peninsula
See Taymyr Peninsula.
Taimyr Peninsula (Russian) [tajˈmir]
n
(Placename) a large peninsula of N central Russia, between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea Also called Taymyr Peninsula
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Noun1.Taimyr Peninsula - a peninsula in northern Siberia
Taymyr Peninsula
Siberia - a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters
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RICHARD STONE Stone reports from Siberia's Taimyr peninsula, where about 600 woolly mammoth skeletons lie buried under each square kilometer of permafrost.
Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant by Science News
The adult male was airlifted 200 miles by helicopter at the weekend from the Taimyr Peninsula to Khatanga, Siberia.
One mammoth find by Radowitz, John von / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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