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Helles, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Helles, Cape hĕlˈəs [key], southernmost point of the Gallipoli peninsula, NW Turkey. It commands the entrance to the Dardanelles. ...

Spartivento, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Spartivento, Cape spärtēvĕnˈtō [key], southeastern extremity of the “toe” of Italy, in Calabria, extending into the Ionian Sea. ...

Catoche, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Catoche, Cape kätōˈchā [key], extremity of Yucatán peninsula, SE Mexico. It was the first Mexican land seen by the Spanish (1517). ...

Flattery, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Flattery, Cape, NW Wash., at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait; discovered in 1778 by Capt. James Cook. A lighthouse and the reservation of the Makah people are on the cape, where cliffs rise 120 ft...

Chelyuskin, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Chelyuskin, Cape chĭlyo͞oˈskĭn [key], northernmost point (lat. 77°43′N) of Asia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, N central Siberian Russia. It is named after the Russian navigator who discovered it in 1...

Ann, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Ann, Cape, NE Mass., N of Massachusetts Bay. It includes Gloucester and Rockport with their fishing fleets, resorts, and artists' colonies. The cape was the epicenter of the 1755 earthquake that damag...

Miseno, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Miseno, Cape mēzĕˈnō [key], S Italy, at the northwest end of the Bay of Naples. Augustus founded (1st cent. b.c.) a naval station (Misenum) there, which was destroyed by the Arabs (9th cent. a.d.)...

Krio, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Krio, Cape krēōˈ [key], Turk. Deveboynu Burnu, promontory, SW Turkey, on the Aegean Sea, on Reşadiye Peninsula north of the island of Rhodes. Ancient Cnidus was situated there. ...

Disappointment, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Disappointment, Cape, projecting into the Pacific Ocean, SW Wash., on the northern side of the mouth of the Columbia River. It was named in 1788 by English Capt. John Meares, who rounded it when searc...

Cape Coral

(Encyclopedia)Cape Coral, city (2020 pop. 194,016), Lee co., SW coastal Fla., located on an estuary of the Caloosahatchee River; inc. 1970. It is mostly a residential...