Cape Flissingski
Coordinates: 76 ° 41 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 69 ° 3 ′ 20.6 ″ E
The Cape Flissingski ( Russian Мыс Флиссингский Mys Flissingski ) is a cape on the Kara Sea , on the North Island of the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic . It is the most easterly point in Europe .
The cape is mostly icy and forms a 28 m high cliff. It marks the easternmost point of the island and is located 47 km southeast of Cape Zelanija (Cape of Desires), the northernmost point of the island. The river Ovrashistaya flows about three kilometers to the northwest, and the river Uschtschelje seven kilometers southeast. Cape Buruny is just under two and a half kilometers south-east. Cape Flissingski separates Avariny Bay in the north from Andromeda Bay in the south. On topographical Soviet maps there was an island east of the cape. The cape is located in the Russian Arctic National Park .
The cape was discovered in 1596 by the Dutch navigator Willem Barents , who was looking for the Northeast Passage north of Novaya Zemlya . He named it after the Dutch town of Vlissingen 't Vlissinger Hooft , as can be seen on a map in the Atlas van Loon from 1664, based on the results of the Barents expedition. Only about 50 kilometers south of the cape, however, the expedition got stuck because of the ice and Barents had to winter on the island. The next spring the ship was not released, so the expedition members built two boats out of the hull and set off with them. Barents died only six days after leaving, presumably of scurvy . The hut that the participants built for the winter (Het Behouden Huys) and a cross for Barents still stand near the cape today.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ topographic map T-42-XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII-1: 200 000
- ↑ https://mapcarta.com/20107734
- ↑ In Search of Het Huys Behouden: A Survey of the Remains of the House of Willem Barents on Novaya Zemlya . Louwrens Hacquebord, September 19, 1994.