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Hornos Island; Southernmost point in the Tierra del Fuego islands of South America and the official dividing point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Roughly 2 degrees of latitude farther south than Chile's Cape Froward, the southernmost point on the mainland of South America, in the Magellan Strait. Cape Agulhas: South Africa
Cape Cod also generated a distinctive Cape style house and Cape lighthouse. Cape Cod Auto Map, 1930s–40s postcard by Tichnor Bros. of Boston Artist Edward Hopper owned a summer house in Truro and painted numerous Cape scenes including Corn Hill (1930), Highland Light, North Truro (1930), Rich's House (1930), High Road (1931), House on Dune ...
Location Coordinates Associated parks, protected areas Access 1 Mammoth Cave: 685.6 km (426.0 mi) [2] [3] near Brownsville, Kentucky: Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Longest cave in the world.
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]
It is also North America's largest lake by volume, at 2,900 cu mi (12,000 km 3); it is commonly called the largest lake by surface area when Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are not considered one lake. Great Salt Lake , Utah , 41°10′N 112°35′W / 41.167°N 112.583°W / 41.167; -112.583 ( Great Salt Lake ) – most extensive ...
Cape Hatteras from space, October 1989. Image orientated with North to the left and East pointing up. Cape Hatteras / ˈ h æ t ə r ə s / is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina. As a temperate barrier island, the landscape has been shaped by wind, waves, and storms.
A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. [5] A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. [6] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae. A river which courses through a very tight ...
Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave