Location of Poronaysky District (Sakhalin Oblast)

Cape Patience (russian: Полуостров Терпения, ''Poluostrov Terpeniya'') is a

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

protruding km of east-central Sakhalin Island into the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. It forms the eastern boundary of the

Gulf of Patience Gulf of Patience is a large body of water off the southeastern coast of Sakhalin, Russia. Geography The Gulf of Patience is located in the southern Sea of Okhotsk, between the main body of Sakhalin Island in the west and Cape Patience in the eas ...

. The width of the peninsula varies from less than , at the Lodochniy Isthmus, to at its widest point. It reaches a maximum elevation of . 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. There is a small

lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ...

at the end of the cape, which was built in 1953.''Lighthouse Explorer Database ... Terpeniya Light.''
Foghorn Publishing, Lighthouse Explorer Database. Retrieved 22 Sept. 2012.

Climate

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Landforms of Sakhalin Oblast Peninsulas of Russia {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub