Location of Poronaysky District (Sakhalin Oblast)

Cape Patience (russian: Полуостров Терпения, ''Poluostrov Terpeniya'') is a

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on al ...

protruding km of east-central

Sakhalin Island Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

into the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. 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 lighthouse 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.

Climate

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