The peninsula covers more than 100,000 km² and lies in the northern part of the West Siberian lowlands on the coast of the Kara Sea. A large part of the population are members of the indigenous Nenets people, who are nomadic or semi-nomadic reindeer herders, hunters...
The now decommissioned oil platform “Polar Pioneer” in the Chukchi Sea. Drilling in the area was abandoned in 2015 because not enough recoverable oil was found. Photo: Mark Fink, Shell The Dutch mineral oil giant Shell plans to drill for oil in the Arctic...