Cape October


Cape October is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.

History

The cape was named during the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev after the month of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Thelodonti fossils from the Upper Silurian have been found in the area of the headland, as well as extinct marine mollusks of the Hiatellidae family.

Geography

Cape October is located in a low-lying unglaciated area of the northern part of October Revolution Island north of the Albanov Glacier. It faces the Red Army Strait opposite the Academy of Sciences Glacier on Komsomolets Island shore. Visoky Island lies about east and Bolshoy Izvestnikovky Island about to the southwest of the cape, near the confluence with the Yuny Strait.