Taymyr peninsula russia

permafrost

Khatanga Undeground Mammoth Museum is located in a horisontal ice cave, that used to be a food storage, in the village of Khatanga on a bank of the Khatanga River in Taymyr Peninsula in Krasnoyarsk Krai,

11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 1,100-pound, 30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth shown above in the tundra of the Taymyr peninsula .

Norilsk

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