Cape Neupokoyev (Russian: Мыс Неупокоева, Mys Neupokoyeva)[1] is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.

Cape Neupokoyev
Мыс Неупокоева
Cape Neupokoyev is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Cape Neupokoyev
Cape Neupokoyev
Location of Cape Neupokoyev in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Coordinates: 77°55′19″N 99°36′20″E / 77.92194°N 99.60556°E / 77.92194; 99.60556
LocationBolshevik Island,
Severnaya Zemlya,
 Russia
Offshore water bodiesKara Sea
Area
 • TotalRussian Far North

Geography

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Cape Neupokoyev is located north of the Vilkitsky Strait and stretches out southwestwards into the Kara Sea. This headland is the southernmost point of Bolshevik Island and of Severnaya Zemlya.[1] There are beach ridges and swales close to Cape Neupokoyev, with the Neupokoyev Lagoon (Russian: Лагуна Неупокоева) located right to the east of the headland.[2]

History

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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, during the Vega Expedition in 1878, sailed very close to this cape but did not notice it. In 1882 Danish Arctic explorer and naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, leader of the Dijmphna Expedition, sailed the waters of the Kara Sea in order to discover land north of the Taymyr Peninsula, but was unable to reach the peninsula's shores owing to thick ice. Later Nansen's Fram expedition in 1895, as well Eduard Toll's Russian polar expedition of 1900–02 on ship Zarya failed to note any traces of land to the north of the strait between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea.[3]

The eastern shore of present-day Severnaya Zemlya was discovered by Boris Vilkitsky in 1913 during the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition, but he did not chart the western coast of Bolshevik Island.[4] This headland was finally surveyed, mapped and named during the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev. It was named after Konstantin Neupokoev (1884—1924), a naval officer, hydrographer and explorer of the Russian Hydrographic Service in Soviet times.[5]

 
1975 map showing Severnaya Zemlya and the Taymyr Peninsula
 
Terra-MODIS image of Severnaya Zemlya in 2001

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mys Neupokoyeva". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Laguna Neupokoyeva". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  3. ^ Nicholas II Land, Bulletin of the American Geographical Society Vol. 46, No. 2 (1914), pp. 117-120
  4. ^ Barr, William (1975). "Severnaya Zemlya: the last major discovery". Geographical Journal. 141 (1): 59–71. doi:10.2307/1796946.
  5. ^ Синюков, В. В. Александр Васильевич Колчак : Учёный и патриот : в 2 ч. / В. В. Синюков; отв. ред. А. П. Лисицын ; Ин-т истории естествознания и техники им. С. И. Вавилова РАН. — М.: Наука, 2009. — ISBN 978-5-02-035761-7 (ч. 2), С. 34