Taymyr Strait () is a 3 km-wide strait in
Russia
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. It separates
Taymyr Island from
Taymyr Peninsula
The Taymyr Peninsula ( ) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administratively it is part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia.
Ge ...
, and connects the
Palander Strait in the west with the
Taymyr Gulf
The Taymyr Gulf (; also known as ''Taymyr Bay'', ) is a gulf in the Kara Sea that includes the estuary of the Lower Taymyra.
The estuary proper is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes.
...
in the east.
References
Straits of the Kara Sea
Straits of Krasnoyarsk Krai
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