The name "Mys Kupriyanov" or "Mys Kupriyanova", for Ivan Kupriyanov, an officer of the Mirnyy, was given by Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819 to a cape on the coast between Novosilski Bay and Cape Disappointment. The name was evidently overlooked by Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin, who in 1930 gave the name Johannesen Point to a feature on this same stretch of coast.
The name "Mys Kupriyanov" or "Mys Kupriyanova", given to Ivan Kupriyanov, a Mirnyy officer, by Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819, was applied to a cape on the coast between Novosilski Bay and Cape Disappointment. However, Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin overlooked this name in 1930, instead naming Johannesen Point.