East Cape

East Cape, the name of the south-eastern extremity of New Guinea, in Goschen Strait, and of the most easterly headlands of Madagascar, the North Island of New Zealand, and Siberia. The last, on Behring Strait, and in 169° 38' W. long., is the easternmost extremity of Asia, and is a bold, rocky promontory of syenite, almost cut off from the mainland by swamps and shallow lakes. On the north side is a village, Uëdle, of between eighty and ninety huts, with a population of about 260.