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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of north-central Russia extending northward between the Laptev and Kara Seas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a peninsula in northern Siberia
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Multiyear fast ice along the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia.
Marine Arctic 2009
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From the tip of the Taymyr Peninsula on the Arctic Ocean to the Central Asian town of Kushka near the Afghan border extend almost 5,000 kilometers of mostly rugged, inhospitable terrain.
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On the other side of the Arctic Ocean, the passage around Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, normally locked in by ice, was similarly open.
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Taymyr Peninsula (Poluostrov Taymyr) Russia 76 00 N 104 00 E
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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