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Cape Brooks
Cape Brooks (Brooks, Cape) is a 465 m cape on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 73°36′S 60°46′W, forming the south side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet; discovered in 1940 and named for meteorologist Charles E. P. Brooks.
Cape Brown
Cape Brown (Cabo Nicolás) is a cape in Antarctica at 69°16′S, 69°44′W, near Schokalsky Bay, Mount Nicholas, and Mount Hahn; GeoNames ID 6630436.
Cape Burd
Cape Burd (Burd, Cabo) is a low rock cliff at the southwest extremity of Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°39'S 57°09'W. Charted by FIDS in 1946 and named for Oliver Burd, a FIDS meteorologist killed in the 1948 Hope Bay hut fire.
Cape Byrd
Cape Byrd, also written Byrd, Cape (Spanish: Byrd, cabo), is a low ice-covered headland on Charcot Island, Palmer Land, Antarctica, at about 69°52'S 75°55'W, named by Hubert Wilkins in honor of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
Cape Cà Mau
Cape Cà Mau (Mũi Cà Mau, Đất Mũi) is Vietnam's southernmost mainland point, where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand; a young Mekong Delta mangrove cape with GPS marker 0001, a national park, and ongoing coastal erosion.
Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral, Florida, a cuspate foreland on the Atlantic coast hosting Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station; renamed Cape Kennedy 1963-1973; beach-ridge plain recording 150,000 years of sea-level highstands.
Cape Casey
Cape Casey (66°22'S, 63°35'W) is a conspicuous Antarctic cape with a peak about 2,500 ft high on the east coast of Palmer Peninsula, projecting into Cabinet Inlet south of Bevin Glacier; charted by FIDS in 1947 and named for Australian minister Richard G. Casey.
Cape Chavanne
Cape Chavanne (Chavanne, Cape; Cabo Chavanne) is a partly ice-free bluff on the NW side of Mill Inlet, Foyn Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica, at 66°59'S 64°43'W, named in 1951 for Austrian polar bibliographer Josef Chavanne.
Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Chelyuskin (Мыс Челюскина, Mys Chelyuskina) is the northernmost point of mainland Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 77.72°N; reached by Semyon Chelyuskin in 1742.
Cape Christmas
Cape Christmas, also Cabo Christmas or Mys Kristmas, is a 320 m rock cape on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at the north entrance to Wüst Inlet, named by FIDS after spending Christmas Day 1947 there.
Cape Cloos
Cape Cloos (Cloos, Cabo) is a high rock cape on Kyiv Peninsula, west Graham Land, Antarctica, at 65°07′S 64°00′W, marking the north entrance to Girard Bay at the south end of the Lemaire Channel; discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99 for Christian Cloos.
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a 394-square-mile sandy peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts, formed by Laurentide ice-sheet lobes about 23,000 years ago and reshaped since by waves, longshore currents, erosion, and rising sea level.
Cape Colbeck (cape)
Cape Colbeck, an ice-covered cape at 77°07'S 158°01'W forming the NW extremity of Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica; discovered January 1902 by the BrNAE and named for Lt. William Colbeck of the relief ship Morning; distinct from the Colbeck Archipelago in East Antarctica.
Cape Collier
Cape Collier, also Cabo Collier, is a broad ice-covered cape at 70°10′S 61°54′W on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, midway between Hearst Island and Cape Boggs, forming the north side of the entrance to Smith Inlet.
Cape Conway
Cape Conway (Conway, Cape; Cabo Conway) is the rounded, ice-free-tipped cape forming the south point of Snow Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Charted by Foster in 1829 and named for HMS Conway; about 1,200 chinstrap penguin pairs breed there.
Cape Deacon
Cape Deacon (Deacon, Cabo) is an ice-covered cape in Antarctica at 73°14′52″S, 59°59′14″W, elevation 13 m, near Kemp Peninsula; recorded in USGS Geographic Names of Antarctica and GeoNames ID 6631929.
Cape Disappointment (cape)
Cape Disappointment is a 700-foot basalt headland on the north side of the Columbia River mouth, Washington, named by John Meares in 1788 after he failed to find the river; Chinook name Kah'eese, now within Cape Disappointment State Park.
Cape Dubouzet
Cape Dubouzet (Dubouzet, Cape; Cabo Dubouzet) is a cape marking the northeast extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula at 63°16'S 57°03'W, charted in 1838 by Dumont d'Urville and named for Lt. Joseph Dubouzet of the ship Zélée.
Cape Ducorps
Cape Ducorps is an Antarctic cape marking the north end of Cockerell Peninsula on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, at about 63°23'S, 58°09'W. Discovered by Dumont d'Urville's French expedition of 1837-40 and named for expedition member Louis-Jacques Ducorps.
Cape Errera
Cape Errera (Errera, Cape) is a cape at the southwest end of Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 64°55'S, 63°37'W. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for the Errera family of Brussels.
Cape Fanning
Cape Fanning (Fanning, Cape) is a cape on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Violante Inlet; discovered by the USAS on December 30, 1940 and named for sealer Edmund Fanning.
Cape Framnes
Cape Framnes (Framnes, Cabo; Kap Framnæs) is a steep cape at the northeast end of Jason Peninsula, Graham Land, NW of the Weddell Sea; discovered and named by C.A. Larsen's Norwegian expedition in 1893.
Cape Garcia
Cape Garcia, also written Garcia, Cape (Spanish: García, cabo), is a cape on the north side of the entrance to Barilari Bay, west Graham Land, Antarctica, at 65°44'S 64°40'W, named by Charcot's expedition.
Cape Grönland
Cape Grönland (Kap Grönland, Cabo Grönland) is the north point of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula, at 64°15'S 63°21'W. Named 1873-74 by the German Antarctic Expedition after its ship Grönland; charted by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition.
Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras is a cape on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where the Gulf Stream meets the Labrador Current over treacherous Diamond Shoals.
Cape Herdman
Cape Herdman (Cabo Herdman, Mys Kherdmen) is an ice-covered cape at 72°36'S 60°36'W, the south entrance point of Violante Inlet, Black Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, named in 1953 for British Discovery Investigations oceanographer Henry F. P. Herdman.
Cape Hooker (cape)
Cape Hooker (cape): name shared by several headlands, including capes in Victoria Land Antarctica (70°38'S 166°45'E, named for an Erebus assistant surgeon), Low Island in the South Shetland Islands, and Marion Island's SE extremity.
Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos, Kaap Hoorn) is the steep southern headland of Hornos Island, Chile, in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at 55°58′S, first rounded by Schouten and Le Maire in January 1616 and named for Hoorn.
Cape James
Cape James (James, Cabo) is a cape at 63°06′S 62°45′W forming the southern tip of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; named from Foster's 1828–31 British survey, distinct from a Canadian Cape James in British Columbia.
Cape Jeremy
Cape Jeremy, a cape on the Fallières Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula at 69°24'S 68°50'W, marks the northeast entrance to George VI Sound and the western end of the Graham Land–Palmer Land boundary line.