Cape Crillon
Cape Crillon, known as Cape Nishinotoro in Japan, is the southernmost point of Sakhalin. The cape was named by Frenchman Jean-François de La Pérouse, who was the first European to discover it. Cape Sōya, in Japan, is located 43 kilometres to the south, across La Pérouse Strait.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Cape Notoro”
- Description: cape in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
- Also known as“Cape Nisinotoro”“Kondo”“Mys Crillon”“Mys Notaro”“Nishi-notoro-misaki”“Nishi-notoro-zaki”“Nishinotoro-saki”“Nisi Notoro Misaki”“Nisinotoro Zaki”“Notoro-saki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mass grave of Soviet paratroopers.
Cape Crillon
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Latitude
45.8929° or 45° 53′ 34″ north
Longitude
142.08082° or 142° 4′ 51″ east
Open location code
8RQ4V3VJ+58
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Cape Crillon” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Krilon burnu”
- Cebuano: “Mys Kril’on”
- Chinese: “克里利翁角”
- Czech: “mys Crillon”
- Czech: “Мыс Крильон (rusky)”
- Czech: “西能登呂岬 - Nisintoro mizaki (japonsky)-мисаки”
- Dutch: “Cape Crillon”
- Estonian: “Crilloni neem”
- Estonian: “Nishinotoro-misaki”
- French: “cap Crillon”
- French: “Cap Crillon”
- German: “Kap Crillon”
- Italian: “Capo Crillon”
- Japanese: “クリリオン岬”
- Japanese: “西能登呂岬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Krilon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mys Krilon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Мыс Крильон”
- Russian: “Крильон мыс”
- Russian: “Крильон”
- Russian: “мыс Крильон”
- Russian: “Мыс Крильон”
- Turkish: “Crillon Burnu”
- Ukrainian: “Крильйон”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Крильйон”
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