cape
Cape (the Latin caput for head, point ) describes a conspicuous or sharp point of land , which can be particularly well pronounced on mountain coasts. Until about the end of the 19th century, the term promontory was used synonymously.
Wind and current
Winds or ocean currents hitting a cape are significantly intensified by bundling. They also change their direction by being distracted.
Well-known capes
Sorted alphabetically:
- Cape Arkona , Ruegen
- Cape Agulhas , the southernmost headland of Africa
- Cape Baba , westernmost point of Turkey or Asia
- Cap Bon , Tunisian Peninsula
- Cape Byron , the most easterly point on mainland Australia
- Cape Canaveral with the US spaceport on the east coast of Florida
- Cape Deschnjow , the northeasternmost point of Russia or Asia
- Cape Farvel , southern tip of Greenland
- Cape Finisterre , medieval pilgrimage destination
- Cabo Girão , Madeira Portugal
- Cape of Good Hope , southern end of the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town in South Africa
- Cape Horn , the southern headland of South America
- Cape Comorin , southernmost headland of the Indian subcontinent
- Cape Morris Jesup , northern tip of Greenland and northernmost land on earth
- North Cape , Norway
- North Cape , New Zealand's northernmost point
- Cabo da Roca , the westernmost point of the European continent
- Cape Skagen , the northernmost point of Denmark
- Cape Tenaro , southernmost cape of the Balkans
- Cape Trafalgar , southern Spain
- Cape Chelyuskin , Northern Russia (Taimyr Peninsula) northernmost mainland point on earth
- Cape Verde , western tip of Africa
- Key West , southern tip of Florida
- Cape York , the northernmost point of Australia
additional
- Cape Verde , island nation
- Cape Colony
- Cape fear , movie
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: Kap - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ " Vorgebirge " in Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 18. Altenburg 1864, p. 686