Back شبه جزيرة يامال Arabic Península de Yamal AST Yamal yarımadası Azerbaijani Ямал Byelorussian Ямал Bulgarian Península de Iamal Catalan Poluostrov Yamal CEB Jamal Czech Jamal-Halbinsel German Χερσόνησος Γιαμάλ Greek
70°40′15″N 70°08′12″E / 70.67088°N 70.13672°E
The Yamal Peninsula (Russian: полуостров Ямал, romanized: poluostrov Yamal) is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northwest Siberia, Russia. It extends roughly 700 km (435 mi) and is bordered principally by the Kara Sea and its Baydaratskaya Bay on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east. At the northern end of this peninsula lie the Malygina Strait and, beyond it, Bely Island. Across Ob estuary lies the Gyda Peninsula. In the languages of the Yamal Peninsula's indigenous inhabitants, the Nenets, Yamal means "End of the Land".
The Yamal peninsula is inhabited by a multitude of migratory bird species.
In the summer of 2007 reindeer herder Yuri Khudi found the well-preserved remains of a 37,000-year-old mammoth calf, dubbed "Lyuba", on the peninsula. The female calf was determined to be one month old[1] at the time of death.[2]
- ^ Ice Baby, National Geographic Magazine, May 2009, archived from the original on 19 April 2009, retrieved 28 December 2014
- ^ "Russia: Mammoth's Corpse Found". The New York Times. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2017.