Meanings
- A cape in Hwadae, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, forming the northern end of the East Korea Bay.
The coast between Tadong Dan (40°47'·66N 129°30'·91E) and Musu Dan, 9½ miles ENE, is indented by several small coves.
[2011, “East coast of Korea - Suwŏn Dan to Tumen River”, in South and East Coasts of Korea, East Siberia, Sea of Okhotsk Pilot, 9th edition, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 221, column 23 more examples
Near the North Korean coast, close to the Musu-dan Peninsula, the crew switched on the highly sensitive electronic intelligence installation, which weighed 2,700 lbs (6,000 kg).
[1985 [1984], Dick van der Aart, “Electronic Spies for the Fleet”, in Sidney Woods, transl., Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West, ARCO/Prentice Hall Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60, column 2The January temperatures range from -20.0°C at the most isolated spot, Changjin (950 ft), to -16.7°C at Pung son, (1.150 ft), actually slightly higher in elevation but closer to the coast, to -7.6°C at Kolchu (127 ft), on the plain but not on the coast, to -4.6°C at Musu Point (76 ft), a lighthouse on the coast.
1988, Shannon McCune, Views of the Geography of Korea, 1935-1960, →OCLC, page 128Deep Sea 129's assigned task was a routine “Beggar Shadow” signal intelligence (SIGINT) collection mission. Its flight profile northwest over the Sea of Japan took it to an area offshore of Musu Point, where the EC-121M would turn northeast toward the Soviet Union and orbit along a 120 nautical mile long elliptical track.
2009, Jack L. Wells, chapter 19, in Paper Dragon, Wooden Ship, Infinity Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135Synonyms: Musudan, Musu-dan, Musu Dan, Cape Boltin, Cape Bruat, Mong-pai-kot, Busui Tan
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA cape in Hwadae, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, forming the northern end of the East Korea Bay.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 舞水端
- 舞水端 (Wǔshuǐduān)cape in Hwadae
Korean 무수단
- 무수단 (Musudan)cape in Hwadae
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Musu Point. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Musu%20Point
“Musu Point.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Musu%20Point. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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