Cape Fonar
Cape Fonar is the easternmost point of the Crimean peninsula. The cape is located on the western shore of Kerch Strait near the exit to Azov Sea. The cape was named Fonar that means lamp or light since it was often used as a base for navigation cressets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yeni-Kale and Yenikalsky Lighthouse.
Yeni-Kale
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Yeni-Kale is a fortress on the shore of Kerch Strait in the city of Kerch.
Yenikalsky Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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The Yeni Kale Lighthouse is an active lighthouse on Cape Fonar near Yeni-Kale fortress in eastern Crimea on the shore of Kerch Strait. Navigation cressets on this coast were first mentioned in the Periplus of Scylax, dated 350 BC.
Port Krym
Harbor
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Port Krym is a port in Crimea. It is located on the western shore of Kerch Strait, in the north-eastern part of Kerch city near a settlement of Zhukivka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Kavkaz and Glazovka.
Port Kavkaz
Locality
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Port Kavkaz is a small harbour on the Chushka Spit in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the eastern side of Kerch Strait. It is adjacent to the village of Chushka, which is now largely deserted due to the toxic effects of the port.
Chushka
Village
Chushka is an abandoned village on the Chushka Spit in Zaporozhskoye Rural Settlement of Temryuksky District, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is located beside Port Kavkaz, which includes the Kerch Strait ferry terminal, near the end of the spit.
Cape Fonar
- Type: Cape
- Description: easternmost point of the Crimean peninsula
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Crimea, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.3827° or 45° 22′ 58″ northLongitude
36.6464° or 36° 38′ 47″ eastOpen location code
8GQR9JMW+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1293008132OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeWikidata ID
Q2061887
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Cape Fonar” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cap Fonar”
- Cebuano: “Mys Fonan”
- Dutch: “Fonar”
- Hebrew: “כף פונאר”
- Japanese: “フォナール岬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fonarneset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Fonar”
- Russian: “мыс Фонарь”
- Russian: “Мыс Фонарь”
- Russian: “Фонарь”
- Ukrainian: “мис Ліхтар”
- Ukrainian: “Фонар”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gleyki and Podmayachny.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Golubinaya Bay and Yenikalsky Lighthouse.
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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 “Cape Fonar”. Photo: AxeL M, CC BY-SA 4.0.