Cape Arktichesky
Coordinates: 81 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 95 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E
The Arctic Cape (also Arctic Cape , russian Мыс Арктический Mys Arktitscheski ) is the northernmost point of the Severnaya Zemlya - archipelago .
location
Cape Arktitscheski is located on Komsomolets Island , which belongs to the Severnaya Zemlya group of islands in the Arctic Ocean .
Due to the distance to the North Pole of 990.7 km, the cape occasionally serves as a starting point for expeditions to the North Pole.
Occasionally Cape Arktitscheski is mentioned as the northernmost point of Russia and thus Eurasia . However, this award goes to Cape Fligely on Franz Josef Land . Since Franz-Josef-Land is usually counted as part of Europe, Cape Arktitscheski is the northernmost point of Asia (see also Cape Tscheljuskin ).
literature
- Yevgeny Pospelov: Географические названия России (Geografitscheskije naswanija Rossii) . AST, 2008, p. 84. ISBN 978-5-17-054966-5 . (Russian)