Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Mys Dezhneva (also Cape Dezhnev) (66°01'N, 169°43' E), Russia, the eastern-most point of Asia, on Chukchi Peninsula in the Bering Strait. Named after Russian navigator Simon Dezhnev (1605-1672), who discovered it in 1648. See also : The Cape article for other well-known capes This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.