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Cape Tuxen

Cape Tuxen (Cap Tuxen) is a rocky cape at 65°16'S, 64°08'W on the Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, forming the southwest entrance point of Waddington Bay in the Grandidier Channel; charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Johan Charles Tuxen of Copenhagen.

Cape Valentine

Cape Valentine (Valentine, Cape) is the east point of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named by Bransfield on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February 1820; site of the first BITAE landing after the loss of Endurance in 1916.

Cape Walcott

Cape Walcott is an ice-covered headland, 625 m high, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 69°05'S 63°20'W, terminating the Scripps Heights near Casey Inlet and the Casey Glacier.

Cape Wheeler

Cape Wheeler (Wheeler, Cape; Cabo Wheeler) is a 460-meter rock scarp on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Wright Inlet; named by Ronne in 1947 for John N. Wheeler.

Cape Willems

Cape Willems (Willems, Cape; Cap Pierre Willems) is a cape at 64°57'S 63°16'W forming the northeast entrance point of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica; charted February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition and named by Adrien de Gerlache for Pierre Willems.

Cape Wollaston

Cape Wollaston (Wollaston, Cape; Punta Cóndor; Cabo Martillo) is the NW point of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 63°40'S 60°47'W, recharted by Foster in 1829 and named for British scientist William Hyde Wollaston.

Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is the large peninsula making up the northernmost portion of Queensland, Australia, a sparsely populated region of tropical savannas, wetlands, and wild rivers.

Cape Zhelaniya

Cape Zhelaniya (Мыс Желания, "Cape of Wishes") is a cape at the northern end of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia, marking the Barents–Kara Sea boundary.

Capiyaan Island

Capiyaan Island (Kapiyaan Island) is a small islet in Surigao del Norte, Caraga, Philippines, at 10.1565°N 125.61222°E, elevation 13 m, near Cabiton-an, Maytubig, Dinagat Island, and Libjo, 10 km to the northwest.

Caprera

Caprera: Sardinian island in the La Maddalena archipelago, joined to La Maddalena by a causeway; home and burial place of Giuseppe Garibaldi, with the Compendio Garibaldino and Garibaldi Memorial museums inside the La Maddalena National Park.

Capri

Capri (Capreae) is an island in the Bay of Naples, Italy, acquired by Augustus in 29 BC and home of Tiberius from 27 to 37 AD. About 3 million yearly visitors in 10 km² drive overtourism measures such as a €5 tourist tax and 40-person tour group limits.

Caribbean Netherlands

Caribbean Netherlands (Caribisch Nederland, BES islands): Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, three special municipalities of the Netherlands since 10 October 2010, with island councils, US dollar currency, and contrasting steppe and monsoon climates.

Carney Island

Carney Island is an ice-covered island off Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, between Siple and Wright Islands and mostly within the Getz Ice Shelf, named for Admiral Robert B. Carney.

Caroline Island

Caroline Island, also called Millennium Atoll (formerly Caroringa), is an uninhabited coral atoll in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati at 10°00′S, 150°13.5′W, renamed Millennium in 2000, with 39 islets, a pristine lagoon, and major seabird and shark populations.

Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands are a widely scattered Pacific archipelago in Micronesia, covering areas that today comprise the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.

Castaway Cay

Castaway Cay, formerly Gorda Cay, is a 1,000-acre private island in The Bahamas. Disney leases and operates it as an exclusive port of call for Disney Cruise Line passengers.

Castle Rock (building)

Castle Rock (building) is a 175 m rock off Snow Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, gazetteer Id 108110, feature type Building; charted by Palmer in 1820, formerly Roche Castle and Gibraltar Rock.

Casy Island

Casy Island, also Île Casy, is an Antarctic island between Coupvent Point and Prime Head, Trinity Peninsula, at 63°14'S 57°30'W, charted by d'Urville's French expedition in February 1838 and surveyed by FIDS 1945–47; distinct from the Casey Islands of Anvers Island and New Caledonia's Île Casy.

Cat islands in Japan

Cat islands in Japan, chiefly Tashirojima (田代島) in Miyagi and Aoshima (青島) in Ehime, are small islands where free-roaming cats outnumber residents; Tashirojima has a cat shrine and manga cabins, Aoshima has no shops.

Cay

A cay is a low, flat island of sand or coral rubble deposited on the surface of a coral reef, spelled "key" in the Caribbean and Florida.

Cayman Brac

Cayman Brac: second-largest of the three Cayman Islands, 14 sq mi, 89 miles northeast of Grand Cayman, named for its Gaelic 'brac' (bluff), highest point of the territory at 42 m, a diving and caving island with the MV Captain Keith Tibbetts wreck.

Centre Island

Centre Island is an island in Square Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1934–37.

Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά)

Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά, Kefalonia) is the largest Ionian Island, Greece, with capital Argostoli. Known for Mount Ainos, Robola wine, Melissani cave, and the destructive M7.2 earthquake of 12 August 1953 that destroyed over 27,659 buildings and lifted the island up to 70 cm.

Chabrier, roca

Chabrier, roca (Chabrier Rock), Antarctic rock rising 40 m on the east side of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands; charted as Rocher Chabrier by Charcot's French expedition in December 1909.

Channel Islands (California)

The California Channel Islands are eight islands off southern California; five form Channel Islands National Park (est. 1980), home to 145 endemic species, 13,000 years of Chumash habitation, and the recovered island fox.

Charcot Island

Charcot Island (Île Charcot) is a roughly circular ice-covered Antarctic island near 70°S 75°W, discovered by Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1910, proved an island by Wilkins in 1929, and cut off from the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009.

Charlton Island

Charlton Island (Sivukutaitiarruvik) is an uninhabited island in James Bay, Nunavut, Canada, near the Rupert River mouth. Thomas James wintered there in 1631-32; the Hudson's Bay Company ran a fur depot there 1680-1686 and 1903-1931. Not the Antarctic Charlton Island in Vincennes Bay.

Chatham Island

Chatham Island (Rēkohu, Wharekauri) is the largest island of New Zealand's Chatham Islands, 800 km east of the South Island; homeland of the Moriori, invaded in 1835, annexed 1842.

Chatham Islands

The Chatham Islands (Rēkohu, Wharekauri) are a New Zealand archipelago about 800 km east of the mainland, inhabited by Moriori and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri descendants, with fishing, farming and tourism economies.

Cheesman Island

Cheesman Island names two small islands: one in Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada (formerly Cheesman Peninsula, near Kinoosao, 356 m elevation), and a rocky Antarctic island off Charcot Island named for RCAF pilot Silas Alward Cheesman.