Cape Berg (, Mys Berga) is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.
This cape was named after prominent USSR geographer and biologist Lev Berg (1876 – 1950).[ Лев Семенович Берг (1876 - 1950). Retrieved on 19 November 2016]
Geography
Stretching out towards the
Laptev Sea east of the
Rusanov Glacier, Cape Berg is the northeasternmost point of October Revolution Island.
History
The shore of present-day Severnaya Zemlya was discovered by
Boris Vilkitsky in 1913 during the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service.
[ "Октябрьской Революции Остров" Great Soviet Encyclopedia]
On 3 September 1913
[22 August 1913 in the Julian calendar used by Russia at the time] members of the expedition went to the shore near Cape Berg, on what is now known as October Revolution Island. They raised the Russian flag on the shore and named the new territory
Tayvay Land (,
Zemlya Tayway), after the first syllable of their icebreaker's names (Taymyr & Vaygach), charting parts of the Laptev Sea coast of what they believed to be a single island. Later the new discovery was named
Emperor Nicholas II Land, (Russian:
Zemlya Imperatora Nikolaya II), after Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.
[ Oil of Russia : www.oilru.com : "Oil of Russia" magazine. www.oilru.com. Retrieved on 19 October 2010.]
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