[1] The cape is on the northeastern side of Tugur Bay, 20 km (about 12 mi) to the west of Seneka Point.

It is high and conspicuous,[2] rising to a height of 162 m (531 ft).

[1] American whaleships frequented the waters off the cape between 1854 and 1889,[3][4][5] anchoring off it and sending whaleboats down the bay for bowhead whales[6] or sending boats to the cape itself to cruise for whales as well.

[8] They called it Silas Richards Bluff,[9] after the ship Silas Richards, of New Bedford, which was wrecked in a bay near the cape on 13 July 1854.

[10] On 27 July 1867, the bark Java, of New Bedford, was ordered out of Tugur Bay near the cape by a Russian man-of-war.