Cape Oscar ( rus, Мыс Оскара; ''Mys Oskara'') is a headland on the western shore of the
Taymyr Peninsula in the
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...
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Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. This cape is located at the northern tip of the
Oscar Peninsula, between the
Taymyr Gulf and
Toll Bay
Toll Bay, (russian: Залив Толля) is a bay in the Kara Sea, Russia. Administratively, Toll Bay and its adjacent area belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.
Geography
Toll Bay is located in the ...
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Administratively Cape Oscar is part of the
Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...
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Geographical Names - Mys Oskara: Russia
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References
External links
A Tsarist Attempt at Opening the Northern Sea Route
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