It has sheer cliffs that are 152 m (500 ft) high and grayish-brown in color.
It forms the eastern point of the entrance to Tugur Bay, the southeastern point of Lindholm Strait, and the western point of the entrance of Academy Bay; to its north lies Belichy Island.
Numerous tide rips and eddies form near the point.
[1] American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off the point between 1855 and 1874.
They called it Shantar Head or Walrus Point.