Kasan type
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Kazan type Казантип |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ N , 35 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Waters 1 | Sea of Azov | |
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Kazantyp ( Ukrainian and Russian Казантип , Tatar Qazantıp) is in the Sea of Azov outstanding Cape and forms the northernmost point of the Kerch Peninsula on the peninsula of Crimea in Ukraine .
The name comes from the Crimean Tatar name "Qazan tüp" and means "bottom of a cauldron" with reference to its concave profile.
geography
Cape Kazantyp is located about 10 km northeast of the city of Shcholkine , 60 km west of Kerch and 150 km northeast of Simferopol and administratively belongs to the Lenine Rajon of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea .
The cape is the northern tip of a peninsula and separates the Kazantyp Bay from the Arabat Bay . The northern part of the peninsula is connected to the southern part by a narrow sandy isthmus about 1.5 km wide.
The mostly steppe- covered cape with a diameter of about 3–4 km has a maximum height of 106.5 m and an average height of 30–40 m. The height of the ground is 20–30 m above sea level. On the cape there is a lighthouse and on the eastern half of the cape are the ruins of a settlement from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Chr.
natural reserve
A 4.5 km² nature reserve (Kazantyp Natur Sapowednik ) was established in Kazantyp as early as 1998 , and since 2004 the Cape Kasantyp cliff complex with an area of 251 ha has been a nature reserve under the Ramsar Convention .
Miscellaneous
The festival for electronic dance music KaZantip , named after the Cape, took place from 1997 to 1999 a few kilometers south of the Cape in the ruins of the Crimean nuclear power plant, which never went online .
2007-2008, the shooting of the US $ 30 million film " The Inhabited Island " (Russian: Обитаемый остров ), a science fiction film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk (son of Sergei Bondarchuk ), based on the 1969 published novel of the same name by Arkadi and Boris Strugazki .
Web links
- Map of Lenine Raion with Kazan type (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Kazantypskyi Nature Zapovednik (English)
- ↑ Kazantip Nature Reserve ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Planet of Darkness. , Message in the Moscow German newspaper February 4, 2009 accessed on September 1, 2013
Remarks
- ↑ The Ukrainian language Wikipedia has an article on the nature reserve under: Казантипський природний заповідник