Cape Elizabeth (, "Gaoto-misaki") is a
cape
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment of any length that hangs loosely and connects either at the neck or shoulders. They usually cover the back, shoulders, and arms. They come in a variety of styles and have been used th ...
on the
Schmidt Peninsula. It is the northernmost point of
Sakhalin
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, p=səxɐˈlʲin) is an island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, while its southern tip lies north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. An islan ...
.
Cape Elizabeth was named by
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Adam Johann von Krusenstern (; 10 October 177012 August 1846) was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806.
Life
Krusenstern was born i ...
(aka ''Ivan Kruzenstern'') in 1805 after
Empress Elizaveta, wife of
Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I (, ; – ), nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825. He ruled Russian Empire, Russia during the chaotic perio ...
.
The cape is a
territory
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In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, ...
under administration of the
Okhinsky District
Okhinsky District () is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast.Law #25-ZO Municipally, it is incorporated as Okhinsky Urban Okrug.Law #524 It is located in the north of the Island of Sak ...
and was even considered the northernmost point of
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
until the
Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1875 when it was replaced by the northernmost point of
Atlasov Island
Atlasov Island, known in Russian as Ostrov Atlasova (Остров Атласова), or in Japanese as Araido (阿頼度島), is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril Islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast ...
(known in Japanese as and in Ainu as Oyakoba).
History
Between 1848 and 1874,
American
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** American ancestry, p ...
whaleship
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Jap ...
s caught
bowhead whale
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s off the cape. They also went ashore to obtain wood.
[''Navy'', of New Bedford, Sep. 19, 1861, Kendall Whaling Museum.]
See also
*
Cape Crillon
Cape Crillon (, "Nishinotoro-misaki" (Cape Nishinotoro in Japanese), ) is the southernmost point of Sakhalin. The cape was named by Frenchman Jean-François de La Pérouse, who was the first European to discover it. Cape Sōya, in Japan, is loca ...
References
External links
Sakhalin Lighthouses (Маяки Сахалина)
Elisabeth
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