The Yamal Peninsula, located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, Russia, extends roughly 700km (435 mi) bordered principally by the Kara Sea on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east.In the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Nenets, the "Yamal" means "End of the World". Peninsula A peninsula (Latin, literally meaning almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. ... Yamalia (Yamalo-Nenets, Ямало-Ненецкий автономный округ) is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... The Kara Sea (Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре) is part of the Arctic Ocean (in the area sometimes called the Arctic Mediterranean Sea) off northern Siberia, bound by the Kara Strait (West, connecting to the Barents Sea) and the Severnaya Zemlya Islands and the Northern Land Archipelago (East, and the Laptev Sea). ... The Gulf of Ob is an immense bay of the Arctic Ocean, at the head of which is the mouth of the Ob River. ... Nenets may refer to: Nenetsia, an administrative region of Russia. ...

The peninsula consists mostly of permafrost ground and is geologically a very young place, less than 10,000 years old. This article is about frozen ground. ...

In the Russian Federation, Yamal peninsula is the place where traditional large-scale nomadic reindeer husbandry is best preserved. On the peninsula, several thousand Nenets and Khanty reindeer herders hold about 500,000 domestic reindeer. At the same time, Yamal is inhabited by a multitude of migratory bird species. Communities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) For the musician, please see Caribou (musician). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

At the same time, Yamal holds Russia's biggest natural gas reserves. Some deposits are being extracted by the Russian state-owned gas monopolist Gazprom, a fact which put the future of nomadic reindeer herding at considerable risk. Natural gas (commonly referred to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... It has been suggested that Sibneft be merged into this article or section. ...

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