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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.
Caribou Mountains
Caribou Mountains: a saucer-shaped plateau in far northern Alberta rising about 700 m, highest point 1,030 m, west of Wood Buffalo National Park; home to Caribou Mountains Wildland Provincial Park (5,910 km2), woodland caribou, wood bison, permafrost, and peatlands, now under Alberta sub-regional land-use planning.
Carnatic region
The Carnatic, a historical region of southeastern India between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel Coast, roughly Tamil Nadu; ruled by the Nawabs of Arcot, site of the Carnatic Wars, annexed by the British in 1801.
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.
Carpathian Mountains
Carpathian Mountains: central-eastern European mountain arc (Karpaty) over 1,500 km long, ~190,000 km², spanning eight countries; highest range the Tatras; flysch geology, beech forests, large carnivores, tourism economies.
Carrauntoohil
Carrauntoohil (Corrán Tuathail), Ireland's highest mountain at 1,038.6 m in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, County Kerry; privately owned, erosion-prone, and the mountain that keeps Kerry Mountain Rescue busiest.
Carrizozo
Carrizozo (Carrizozo Malpaís) is a 75-km-long Holocene basaltic pahoehoe lava flow in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin, erupted from Little Black Peak about 5,200 years ago, one of Earth's longest young lava flows.
Cascade Range
The Cascade Range, or Cascades, is a volcanic mountain chain from northern California to British Columbia, built above the Cascadia subduction zone, with major stratovolcanoes like Rainier, St. Helens, and Hood and about two eruptions per century.
Casey Glacier
Casey Glacier is a glacier about 6 miles wide on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 for R.G. Casey.
Casiri, Nevados
Nevados Casiri (Paugarani) is a compound stratovolcano of four trachytic edifices in Tacna Region, southern Peru, near the Chilean border, 5,626 m high, with Holocene lava flows 2,600-6,000 years old and no confirmed historical eruptions.
Caspian Depression
Caspian Depression: flat lowland of the Eastern European Plain around the northern Caspian Sea, reaching 28 m below sea level; desert, salt marsh and steppe landscapes with nomadic sheep herding and old oil fields.
Cassiar Mountains
Cassiar Mountains: mountain system in far northern British Columbia extending into the Yukon, named from Kaska, adopted 1917; site of the 1870s gold rush, Cassiar asbestos town, and jade and gold mining.
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.
Castor Nunatak
Castor Nunatak, a rock peak in the Seal Nunataks group off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula; discovered by Larsen in 1893, named for the sealing ship Castor, confirmed as a nunatak in 1902.
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.
Cathedral Caves (New Zealand)
The Cathedral Caves are two joined sea caves at Waipati Beach in the Catlins, on New Zealand's South Island, about 200 meters long and up to 30 meters high.
Catskill Mountains
Catskill Mountains: upland in southeastern New York, a dissected plateau at the northeastern end of the Appalachian Plateau, built of Devonian delta sediments; highest peak Slide Mountain (1,281 m) and source of New York City's unfiltered Catskill/Delaware water supply.
Caucasus Mountains
Caucasus Mountains: Greater and Lesser Caucasus ranges between the Black and Caspian Seas, formed by Eurasia-Arabia collision; Mount Elbrus (5,642 m), Europe's highest peak; rapidly retreating glaciers.
Cave
A cave is a natural underground void large enough to enter, extending beyond daylight. Main types are solution (karst) caves, lava tubes, sea caves, talus caves, and ice caves; Mammoth Cave is the longest.
Cave 13 at Udayagiri
Cave 13 at Udayagiri (Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh) is a Gupta-era rock-cut shrine housing the 3.6-metre Anantasayana (Sheshashayi) Vishnu reclining on a serpent; distinct from Sarpa Gumpha, Cave 13 of the Jain Udayagiri caves in Odisha.
Cave digging
Cave digging is the excavation of sediment, rock, or debris to open cave entrances or extend cave passage. Also called caver digs; regulated on protected sites such as SSSIs and US park caves, with conservation, documentation, and permit requirements.
Cave Divers Association of Australia
The Cave Divers Association of Australia, founded at Mount Gambier in 1973 after fatal diving accidents, trains and certifies cave divers and controls site access.
Cave diving
Cave diving: diving in flooded cave systems, an overhead environment requiring specialized training and equipment. Known for accident analysis (Exley 1979), the rule of thirds, and declining fatality rates.