Kola Peninsula
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The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of Russia, and one of the largest peninsulas of Europe. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely
View of the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk
The Khibiny Mountains have an Arctic-moderate climate
Ripe cloudberry
An Arctic fox
Kola Superdeep Borehole
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres in 1989. It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penet
Kola Peninsula
…Nature Reserve, established to protect the population of common eider, is located in the Kandalaksha Gulf. The peninsula is also the site of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest hole drilled into the Earth. The peninsula is located in the far northwest of Russia, almost completely inside the Arctic Circle, and is…
Superstructure of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, 2007
Kola Superdeep Borehole, commemorated on a 1987 USSR stamp
The borehole site in 2012
The borehole (welded shut), August 2012