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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...

Cape Coast

(Encyclopedia)Cape Coast, town (1984 pop. 57,224), capital of Central Region, S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea. Known locally as Gna or Oegna, the town is an export port and fishing center. The town originated as an ...

Mendocino, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Mendocino, Cape mĕndəsēˈnō [key], westernmost point of California, c.200 mi (320 km) N of San Francisco in Humboldt co. It was discovered and named in 1543 in honor of Antonio de Mendoza by Barto...

Sable, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Sable, Cape, S Fla., southernmost extremity of the U.S. mainland. It is part of Everglades National Park.

Pereira, Aristides Maria

(Encyclopedia)Pereira, Aristides Maria ärĭshˈtēdĭsh märēˈä pərāˈrä [key], 1923–2011, first president of Cape Verde. In the late 1940s he became an activist in the struggle against Portuguese colonial...

Cape jasmine

(Encyclopedia)Cape jasmine: see madder.

Ecnomus, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Ecnomus, Cape: see Licata, Italy.

Wrath, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Wrath, Cape, promontory, Highland, NW Scotland. It is the northwestern extremity of the Scottish mainland. The headland, 368 ft (112 m) high, has a lighthouse. ...

Bauld, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Bauld, Cape: see Great Northern Peninsula, Canada. ...

Chidley, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Chidley, Cape, headland on Killiniq Island, off NE Labrador-Ungava Peninsula, Canada, on the Newfoundland and Labrador–Nunavut border. Located at the entrance to Hudson Strait, it was named by the e...