Cape Patience

View of Cape Patience from space.
This map shows Poronaysky District; Cape Patience is the skinny peninsula in the southeastern part.

Cape Patience (Russian: Полуостров Терпения, Poluostrov Terpeniya) is a peninsula protruding 65 km (40 mi) km of east-central Sakhalin Island into the Sea of Okhotsk. It forms the eastern boundary of the Gulf of Patience. The width of the peninsula varies from less than 1 km (0.62 mi), at the Lodochniy Isthmus, to 30 km (19 mi) at its widest point. It reaches a maximum elevation of 350 m (1,150 ft). The cape is the southernmost extension (on land) of the East Sakhalin Mountains, a north-south range that runs along the eastern side of Sakhalin Island.[1]

There is a small lighthouse at the end of the cape, which was built in 1953.[2]

References

  1. ov, E. P., A. V. Mozherovsky, M. T. Gorovaya, I. B. Tsoy, and N. G. Vashchenkova. Composition of the Rocks of the Kotikovo Group and the Main Stages in the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene Evolution of the Terpeniya Peninsula, Sakhalin Island. Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 4.3 (2010): 260-73.
  2. Lighthouse Explorer Database ... Terpeniya Light. Foghorn Publishing, Lighthouse Explorer Database. Retrieved 22 Sept. 2012.

Coordinates: 48°54′N 144°35′E / 48.900°N 144.583°E / 48.900; 144.583

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