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  2. List of peninsulas - Wikipedia

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    Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula; Cape Ann, includes the towns of Gloucester and Rockport; Nahant, a town in Essex County, is on a small peninsula. Nantasket Peninsula, Hull; Shawmut Peninsula, Boston

  3. Cape Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats, and the undeveloped land of the rest of the peninsula now form part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The Cape Peninsula is bounded to the north by Table Bay, to the west by the open Atlantic Ocean, and to the east by False Bay in the south and the Cape Flats in the ...

  4. Cape of Good Hope - Wikipedia

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    Both the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point offer spectacular scenery; the whole of the southernmost portion of the Cape Peninsula is a wild, rugged, scenic and generally unspoiled national park. The term "the Cape" has also been used in a wider sense, to indicate the area of the European colony centered on Cape Town, [ 37 ] and the later South ...

  5. Cape (geography) - Wikipedia

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    Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa, from space Cape Tisan in Mersin Province, Turkey Cape Tindari and Marinello lagoons, Sicily. In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. [1]

  6. North Cape (Norway) - Wikipedia

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    The northernmost point of mainland Europe is located at Cape Nordkinn (Kinnarodden) which lies about 5.7 km (3.5 mi) further south and about 70 km (43 mi) to the east. That point is located near the village of Mehamn on the Nordkinn Peninsula .

  7. Cape Nordkinn - Wikipedia

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    Cape Nordkinn (Norwegian: Kinnarodden or Northern Sami: Gidnegeahči [1]) at is the northernmost point on the Nordkinn Peninsula in Finnmark county, NorwayIt is notable for being the northernmost point of mainland Norway, and by extension the northernmost point of mainland Europe.

  8. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Geological map of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. The Cape Peninsula is a rocky and mountainous peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the continent. At its tip is Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. The peninsula forms the west side of False Bay and the Cape Flats.

  9. Sagres Point - Wikipedia

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    The most westerly point of the Iberian Peninsula and of the European continent is Cabo da Roca, near Sintra; the southernmost, Punta de Tarifa, in Andalusia. The rocks at the base of the Cape St. Vincent lighthouse are called "fim do mundo", or "end of the world". Strabo reports (Book 3.1.4) as follows: