Yamal Peninsula
Coordinates: 70°40′15″N 70°08′12″E / 70.67088°N 70.13672°E
The Yamal Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Яма́л) is located in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, Russia. It extends roughly 700 km (435 mi) and is bordered principally by the Kara Sea, Baydaratskaya Bay on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east. In the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Nenets, "Yamal" means "End of the Land".
The peninsula consists mostly of permafrost ground and is geologically a very young place —some areas are less than ten thousand years old.
Yamal is inhabited by a multitude of migratory bird species.
The well-preserved remains of Lyuba, a 37,000-year-old mammoth calf, were found by a reindeer herder on the peninsula in the summer of 2007. The animal was female and was determined to be one month old at the time of death.
In 2016 a Russian Mi-8 helicopter carrying oil and gas workers crashed here, killing at least 19 of the 22 people on board.
According to Sven Haakanson, within the Russian Federation, the Yamal peninsula is the place where traditional large-scale nomadic reindeer husbandry is best preserved.Nenets and Khanty reindeer herders hold about half a million domestic reindeer.
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