Schmidt Peninsula () is a

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Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalinskaya oblastʹ, p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ...

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. 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 ...

Island and is located north of Okha town.

History

The indigenous

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of northern Sakhalin called the peninsula Mif-Tyongr (Миф-тёнгр), meaning "head of the earth." The name Schmidt Peninsula was chosen by geologist N. Tikhonovich in 1908, in honor of fellow geologist Fyodor Schmidt who had visited Sakhalin in 1866. Previously it had been named "Saint Elizabeth Peninsula" in certain maps. Cape Elizabeth and Cape Mary, the two main headlands of the peninsula, had been named in 1805 by

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Geography

The Schmidt Peninsula is the northern extremity of

Island. There are two roughly parallel mountain ranges stretching in a NNW/SSE direction. The mountains are covered with

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and

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forests and are separated by a

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y valley. Cape Elizabeth is at the northern end of the Eastern Range and Cape Mary (мыс Марии), the northwestern headland, at the northern end of the lower Western Range. Severny Bay lies between them. To the west lies the Sakhalin Gulf and to the east and north the Sea of Okhotsk. The highest point of the peninsula is high Mount Three Brothers (гора Три Брата), rising in the eastern range.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). ''Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia''. U.S. Government

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References

External links

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