Cape St Nose.

 headland, invisible

Holy Nose - cape on the Kola Peninsula, shared by the Barents and White Sea and Murmansk and Tersky Bank.

From the chronicles known that Novgorodians walking along the coast of the peninsula, from afar, a few dozen miles, they saw far sea vdayuschiysya rocky nose. He initially was given the name Tersky nose. Tersky cape. Then the Russian name Tersky passed on the entire Cape Peninsula, a cape for fixed - Holy Nose, hitting on the maps of Western European cartographers in the XVI century.
Norwegians that cape called Vegestad (Track column, a rock or road). Indeed, when navigating from Norway to the White Sea there was need to dramatically change course.

From the description of travel in 1496 of the Russian embassy, headed by Grigory Diakov languor. According to languor, St. nose is a huge rock, vdayuschayasya in the sea, like the nose, under it is visible vodovorotnaya cave, which is every six hours absorbs water, and with a great noise back cat back this abyss. Some say that this is a mid-sea, while others -- that Charybdis. ... The strength of the deep so great that it attracted ships and other objects nearby, intense and absorbing them, and that they have never been in greater danger. "For when the gulf has become suddenly and severely pull the ship on which they went, they barely escaped with great difficulty, nalegshi all forces in the oars. "

There is an old Pomeranian saying "Where is the fish or walk, and the Holy Nose no bypasses. Through the Holy Nose manufacturers drag their ships, from the lips of Volkova Lapskoe становище. Legend claims that the Holy Nose vodilis super-worms which protachivali the court during their journey. But according to the holy man Varlamov Keretskoy traveling from the Kola on boats, these worms zaklyal why they lost their force.

From 1826 to 1832 in the vicinity of Cape lieutenant Michael Reyneke Frantsevich led geographic research. On the elevated part of the Cape St. Nose expedition was seamark - high wooden tower.

Sam Peninsula about 15 km long and up to 3 km. Height up to 179 meters on the peninsula are a few small lakes in the several streams, including the long and Sokolov. In the peninsula cut lip becomes long White Sea and the Bay Lopskoe Становище Svyatonosskogo bay. Located mysy Sokolov Nose and Natalie Navolok. Earlier in the peninsula was the village Svyatonosskaya Siren.
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