Chelyuskin, CAPE

Chelyuskin, CAPE (formerly North-east Cape, and sometimes called Cape Severo), the most northerly point of Asia, on a peninsula of the same name, which forms the western arm of the eastern half of the Taimyr peninsula. It is named after a Russian officer who led an expedition thus far in 1742, and here succumbed, with his wife, to the fatigues of the journey; it was not revisited till 1878, when Nordenskjöld, in the Vega, spent the 19 and 20th of August here. He found it a low promontory, divided into two parts by a small bay; the lat. of the western is 77° 36' 37" N., that of the eastern 77° 41' N.