The Khatanga Undeground Mammoth Museum in Khatanga village on the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia displays woolly mammoth remains found in the region. An 11-year-old boy discovered a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth, weighing over 1,100 pounds, in the tundra of the Taymyr Peninsula. The museum is located in a former underground food storage area carved into permafrost on the banks of the Khatanga River.

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17. Khatanga Undeground Mammoth Museum is located in a horisontal ice cave,
that used to be a food storage, in the village of Khatanga on a bank of the
Khatanga River in Taymyr Peninsula in Krasnoyarsk Krai,

30. 11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 1,100-pound,
30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth shown above
in the tundra of the Taymyr peninsula .

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