Cape Unslicht (russian: Мыс Песчаный, ''Mys Peschanyy'') is a headland in

Severnaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya (russian: link=no, Сéверная Земля́ (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago ...

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Stretching out northwards NW of the

Akhmatov Fjord Akhmatov Fjord, also known as Akhmatov Bay (russian: Залив Ахматова, ''Zaliv Akhmatova''), is a fjord in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.GoogleEarth This fjord is clogged by ice most of the year. History The fjord was named ...

and east of the mouth of

Mikoyan Bay Mikoyan Bay (russian: Залив Микояна, ''Zaliv Mikoyana'') is a bay in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.GoogleEarth It is clogged by ice most of the year with many icebergs in the strait off the mouth of the bay. History This ...

, this headland is the northernmost point of

Bolshevik Island __NOTOC__ Bolshevik Island (russian: о́стров Большеви́к, ) is an island in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Arctic. The island is named after the political faction of the same name. History The island, together with ...

. Cape Unslicht is one of the landmarks defining the limits of the

Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, t ...

according to the

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History

The Laptev Sea shore of present-day Severnaya Zemlya was discovered by

Boris Vilkitsky Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky (russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Вильки́цкий) (22 March (3 April N.S.) 1885, Pulkovo – 6 March 1961) was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor. He was the son of Andrey Ippolitovich Vilkitsky. ...

in 1913 during the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition on behalf of the

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, but he was unaware that there was a strait west of the cape between what is now Bolshevik Island and the islands further north, for the straits are frozen most of the year, forming a compact whole. Named during the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by

Georgy Ushakov Georgy Alexeyevich Ushakov (russian: Георгий Алексеевич Ушаков) (17 (30) January 1901 – 3 December 1963) was a Soviet explorer of the Arctic. Ushakov broke new ground when he surveyed and explored Severnaya Zemlya, togeth ...

and

Nikolay Urvantsev Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev (russian: Николáй Николáевич Урвáнцев; – 20 February 1985) was a Soviet geologist and explorer. He was born in the town of Lukoyanov in the Lukoyanovsky Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Gove ...

after Zofia Unslicht, a German communist figure, this headland was renamed ''Mys Peschanyy'' (

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y Cape) in Russian, following

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. There was a

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and scientific station near the cape, Peschanny Polar Station, now abandoned.Operational Navigation Chart B-3, 2nd edition
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