Nordkyn

[ nawr-kin, noor; Norwegian nœr-kyn ]

noun

1. Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.

Example Sentences

The most northerly point on the mainland is Cape Nordkyn, in Lapland, in lat.

From Project Gutenberg

The most northern point of the mainland area is Cape Nordkyn in Norway, 71� 6′ N.; its most southern, Cape Tarifa in Spain, in 36� 0′ N.; its most western, Cape da Roca in Portugal, 9� 27′ W.; and its most eastern, a spot near the north Extreme points. end of the Ural Mountains, in 66� 20′ E. A line drawn from Cape St Vincent in Portugal to the Ural Mountains near Ekaterinburg has a length of 3293 m., and finds its centre in the W. of Russian Poland.

From Project Gutenberg

Two weeks later, the Soviet timber freighter Kliloi hove to, also near the Nordkyn Peninsula.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nautical trespassing began on June 27, when a Soviet tugboat and three smaller vessels anchored off the Nordkyn Peninsula in the Barents Sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people asked me whither I was bound, and I told them that I was going as far north as the Arctic Ocean, as far as Nordkyn.

From Project Gutenberg