Cape Vilda

Cape Vilda

Cape Vilda (Russian: Mys Vil'da) is a landhead in the Kara Sea, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation. This cape is located on the western shore of the Taymyr Peninsula, at the western end of the Middendorff Bay.

The Myachina Islands, a group of two small islets, lie 3 Km north of Cape Vilda.

History

In 1921 Nikifor Begichev led a Soviet expedition in search for Roald Amundsen's 1919 Arctic expedition's crew members Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen on request of the government of Norway. Checking the remains of campfires, Begichev was able to establish that Amundsen's men had passed Cape Vilda, more than halfway down their journey, and that at at that point all was well. Captain Jakobsen, a Norwegian who went with Begichev, found later an abadoned sledge 90 km west of Mys Vil’da, indicating that something had gone wrong with his two ill-fated compatriots.

References

*William Barr, "The Last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen", 1919.
* [http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Polarforsch1975_1_6.pdf A Tsarist Attempt at Opening the Northern Sea Route]
* [http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/russia_guide.htm Location]
* [http://www.geonames.org/1487107/mys-vil-da.html Geographical data]


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