Welcome naar het Kola Schiereiland
 The Kola Schiereiland is the Noordermost territory van European Rusland, situated
Noord van het 66th Parallel. The territory extends 550 kilometres van west naar
east, en 400 kilometres van Noord naar south. The Peninsula is bordered by the
Witte Zee in de southeast en by the Barents Sea in de Noord en Noordeast. Karelië lies naar de south, Finland naar de west, en Norway naar de Noordwest.
The bulk van het Kola Schiereiland lies Noord van het arctische Circle. Winters are cold
but not frigid; zomers are warm but not hot. January temperatures range between
-8 en –13oC; July temperatures range between +12 en +20oC.
The legendary Pool Night blankets the Peninsula tijdens December en January,
when the sun hides below the horizon dag en nacht. in de stad electric bulbs
might light the way, but in de wildernis darkness prevails. However, comes
zomer, the Kola Schiereiland is transformed into a land van Midzomernacht.
Throughout June en July bright sunshine illuminates the land around the clock.
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 The regio is covered by toendra, forest-toendra en taiga (dense forest) en is
home naar a wide variety van flora: more than 650 species are found here. Trees
include three types van spruce, four types van birch, as well as pine, rowan, en
alder. The Kola Schiereiland is also rich in fauna. Wildlife includes rendier en
elk, brown bear, wolf, fox, arctische fox, ermine, en wolverine; birds include
wild geese, duck, ptarmigan, hazel-hen, grouse, eider en peregrine falcon.
Various representatives van het zalm family can be found in plenty in de lakes
and rivieren. The "King-vis" (pink zalm) leaps door rivier rapids op its
journey van sea naar spawning ground. The Kola Schiereiland boasts more than 130,000
lakes en rivieren.
A number van berg ranges rise out van het western en central parts van het
Kola Schiereiland. The langste van these is the Khibiny toendra, possessing a maximum
elevation van 1200m (Mt. Judychvumchorr). The Lovozero toendra is made up van
rounded bergen met plateau summits, the highest point being Mt.
Angvundaschorr at 1127m. Both the Khibiny en the Lovozero toendra are rich in
exotic mineralen. Jewel-like lakes, transparent springs, majestic waterfalls,
fantastic rock outcrops en stunning berg vistas can be found in these
regios. At lower elevations, virgin forests stretch voor huge distances.
 The first inhabitants van het Kola Schiereiland arrived over 10,000 years ago.
Remains van Oeroude civilisations have been found here, met the earliest finds
thought naar date van de Mesolithic Period. rotstekeningen were discovered op de
banks van het Panoy rivier, one van het Peninsula’s longest rivieren. These paintings
are the oldest memorials van rock art among Oeroude peoples. voor ages people
continued naar come naar this sacred spot, en painted more en more pictures. The
rotstekeningen depict the life en religious symbolism van het regio’s inhabitants;
however, many questions remain unanswered regarding their origin en the people
who created them.
Nowadays op Kola Schiereiland live about one million people.
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