[1] The Yugorsky Strait and, beyond it, Vaygach Island lie at the northwestern end of this peninsula.

The Pay-Khoy Ridge occupies the peninsula and extends from northwest to southeast.

In the southeastern end of the Yugorsky Peninsula lies the Kara meteorite crater, while the Ust-Kara site lies offshore, 15 km east of the small Kara or Karskaya Guba inlet.

It was formerly believed that these two sites were two separate craters and that they formed a twin impact structure from a large-scale meteorite hit in the late Cretaceous.

(Hodge 1994 and NASA 1988) This Nenets Autonomous Okrug location article is a stub.