The Mikhailov Peninsula (Russian Poluostrov Mikhailova) is a small peninsula in the eastern shores of the Kara Sea on the western side of the Taymyr Peninsula. Its latitude is 75° 05' N and its longitude 87° 15' E.
The Mikhailov Peninsula is covered with tundra and it lies north of the Minina Skerries. It belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation. It is also part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.[1]
The climate in the area is cold with long bitter winters. The sea surrounding the Mikhailov Peninsula is frozen most of the year. It begins to thaw towards mid June and already by mid September it freezes again.
- ^ Great Arctic State Nature Reserve Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine