Cape Prince of Wales
Cape Prince of Wales (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is the westernmost mainland point of the Americas. It was named in 1778 by Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> presumably for the Prince of Wales at the time, George Augustus Frederick. Discovered (for Europeans) in 1732, by an expedition led by a Russian military geodesist Mikhail Gvozdev in Sviatoi Gavriil (St. Gabriel);<ref name=WDL1>Template:Cite web</ref> later, the cape was named by Vitus Bering for Gvozdev as Mys Gvozdeva (Cape Gvozdev). The Yupik name of the cape, published by Gavril Sarychev in 1826,<ref>Atlas Svernoy chastii Vostochnogo Okeana... (Atlas of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean). Compiled in Sheets by the Imperial Navy Department from Latest Reports and Maps, 1826, under the Direction of Vice-Admiral and Hydrographer Sarychev). St. Petersburg, 1826.</ref> was Nykhta.<ref>Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967.</ref> The current name was approved by a decision of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names in 1944.<ref name=WDL1/>
Located on the Seward Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska near the settlement of Wales, Cape Prince of Wales is the terminus of the Continental Divide, marking the division between the Pacific and Arctic coasts, as well as marking the limit between the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea. It is the eastern boundary of the Bering Strait, 51 miles (82 km) opposite Cape Dezhnev, and adjacent to the Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock.Template:Citation needed