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Cape Crillon, the Glossary

Cape Crillon (Мыс Крильон, 西能登呂岬 "Nishinotoro-misaki" (Cape Nishinotoro in Japanese)) is the southernmost point of Sakhalin.^[1]

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22 relations: Ainu people, Cape (geography), Cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin), Cape Sōya, History of Yuan, Imai Kanehira, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, La Pérouse Strait, Lighthouse, Mamiya Rinzō, Matsumae clan, Military base, Mongol invasions of Sakhalin, Pacific Ocean, Rammed earth, Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Sakhalin Oblast, Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel, Tokugawa shogunate, Weather station, Yuan dynasty.
Headlands of Sakhalin Oblast

Ainu people

The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.

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Cape (geography)

In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea.

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Cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin)

Cape Elizabeth (Мыс Елизаветы, 鵞小門岬 "Gaoto-misaki") is a cape on the Schmidt Peninsula. Cape Crillon and cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin) are headlands of Sakhalin Oblast and Sakhalin Oblast geography stubs.

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Cape Sōya

is the northernmost point of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan and by extension the whole of Japan.

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History of Yuan

The History of Yuan, also known as the Yuanshi, is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China.

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Imai Kanehira

Imai Kanehira (今井兼平, 1152-1184) was a military commander of the late Heian Period of Japan.

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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 17411788?), often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer.

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La Pérouse Strait

La Pérouse Strait (пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait (宗谷海峡), is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east. Cape Crillon and La Pérouse Strait are Sakhalin Oblast geography stubs.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Mamiya Rinzō

was a Japanese explorer of the late Edo period.

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Matsumae clan

The was a Japanese aristocratic family who were daimyo of Matsumae Domain, in present-day Matsumae, Hokkaidō, from the Azuchi–Momoyama period until the Meiji Restoration.

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Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations.

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Mongol invasions of Sakhalin

From 1264 to 1308, the Mongol Empire (and its successor the Yuan dynasty) made several incursions into the island of Sakhalin off the east coast of Siberia to aid their Nivkh allies against the Ainu, who had been expanding north from Hokkaido.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Rammed earth

Rammed earth is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using compacted natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel.

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Russian Far East

The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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Sakhalin Oblast

Sakhalin Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East.

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Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel

The Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel (or potentially bridge) is a proposed connection to link the Russian island of Sakhalin with the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

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Weather station

A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Crillon

Also known as Kril'on.