Avlaka Point
İnce Burun, also Avlaka Burnu, is the westernmost point of Turkey. It is located at Gökçeada, at the entrance of Gulf of Saros in the northern Aegean Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland on Gökçeada, in Çanakkale Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Avlaka Burnu”, “Ince Burun”, “İnce Burun”, “İnce Burun, Gökçeada”, “İncirburnu”, “İncirburnu, Gökçeada”, and “Point Aulaka”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uğurlu and Şirinköy.
Uğurlu
Village
Şirinköy
Village
Şirinköy is a village in the Gökçeada District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 264.
Dereköy
Village
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Dereköy, originally İskinit, is a village in the Gökçeada District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 361 in 2022.
Avlaka Point
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Çanakkale Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.12496° or 40° 7′ 30″ northLongitude
25.66545° or 25° 39′ 56″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
8GG74MF8+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 4104951163OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Avlaka Point” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إنجي بورون”
- German: “İnce Burun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “İnce Burun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “İncirburnu”
- Swedish: “İnce Burun”
- Swedish: “İncirburnu”
- Swiss German: “İnce Burun”
- Swiss German: “Kávo Avlaka (Κάβο Αύλακα)”
- Tosk Albanian: “İnce Burun”
- Turkish: “Avlaka Burnu”
- Turkish: “İncirburnu”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Avlaka Point”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.