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A map of the Magadan area, showing the western part of the Koni Peninsula, lower right Satellite view of the Koni Peninsula. The Koni Peninsula projects into the Sea of Okhotsk in Magadan Oblast, in the Russian Far East, and has an area of 103,434 hectares. [1] Its north-western shores are on the Taui Bay.
Magadan Oblast was established on December 3, 1953 [12] in what had popularly been known as Kolyma.As a result of considerable raw resources, especially gold, silver, tin, and tungsten deposits, mining activities and road building had been developed during the Stalin era in the 1930s and 1940s under the coordination of Dalstroy and its forced labor camps.
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In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.
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Magadan (Russian: Магадан, IPA: [məɡɐˈdan]) is a port town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia.The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the Nagaev Bay; it serves as a gateway to the Kolyma region.