Cape Patience (, ''Poluostrov Terpeniya'') is a

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

protruding km of east-central

Sakhalin Island 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 ...

into the

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. It forms the eastern boundary of the Gulf of Patience. The width of the peninsula varies from less than , at the Lodochniy Isthmus, to at its widest point. It reaches a maximum elevation of . The cape is the southernmost extension (on land) of the East Sakhalin Mountains, a north-south range that runs along the eastern side of Sakhalin Island. There is a small

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at the end of the cape, which was built in 1953.''Lighthouse Explorer Database ... Terpeniya Light.''
Foghorn Publishing, Lighthouse Explorer Database. Retrieved 22 Sept. 2012.

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Landforms of Sakhalin Oblast Peninsulas of Russia {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub