Cape of Elisabeth is a cape on Schmidt Peninsula. It is the
northNorth is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:* North is used to define all other directions....
ernmost point of
SakhalinSakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. The indigenous peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs...
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Cape of Elisabeth is a cape on Schmidt Peninsula. It is the
northNorth is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:* North is used to define all other directions....
ernmost point of
SakhalinSakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. The indigenous peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs...
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Cape of Elisabeth was named by
Adam Johann von KrusensternAdam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern was an Imperial Russian, Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth...
(aka
Ivan Kruzenstern) in 1805 after Empress Elizaveta which was wife of
Alexander I of RussiaAlexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania.He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later...
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Cape is a territory under administration by Okhinsky District.
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