Editing Cape Dezhnyov (section)

==Geography==
In 1898, the cape was officially renamed as Cape Dezhnev, replacing Captain [[James Cook]]'s name, the "East Cape". It was named in honor of [[Semyon Dezhnev]], the first recorded European to round its tip (in 1648). There is a large monument to Dezhnev on the [[seacoast]].

The cape is the eastern tip of a high, rocky headland, about {{convert|20|km|mi}} from [[Uelen]] in the north to Cape Pe'ek in the south, connected to the mainland by a neck of lower-lying land peppered with swamps and shallow lakes. That low-lying land is so low in elevation that the cape appears as an island from a distance far to the south of it. The US Hydrographic Office publication ''Asiatic Pilot'' from 1909 gives the height of the headland as {{convert|2521|ft|m}}, and the US Office of Coast Survey chart of 2000 shows the highest peak at {{convert|2638|ft|m}}. The [[headland]] and the neck of low-lying land together form a [[peninsula]].  A well-established trail crossed the neck of land behind the headland in pre-historic and historic times, traversed by sleds in the winter and used as a portage in the summer to avoid traversing the strait.  This route was important enough that, according to an analysis by linguist [[Michael E. Krauss|Michael Krauss]], the [[Central Siberian Yupik language]] continued up the coast, un-interrupted by the [[Naukan Yupik language|Naukansky]] dialect spoken in the village of [[Naukan (village)|Naukan]] on the headland.

The [[Great Circle]] distance from Cape Dezhnev to the shore of the [[Bab-el-Mandeb]] strait in [[Yemen]] is about {{convert|10,855|km}}, which is the longest land distance of [[Asia]].