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- northeastern portion of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is separated from the remainder of the province and the Canadian mainland by the 2-mile- (3-kilometre-) wide Strait of Canso (southwest) and is further bounded by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cabot ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cape buffalo
- largest and most formidable of African bovids. Similar to the water buffalo of Asia, the Cape buffalo is massive, black, and sparsely haired, standing up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) at the shoulder, with bulls weighing up to about 900 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cape Coast
- town in the centre of the seaboard of Ghana. It lies on a low promontory jutting into the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean about 75 miles (120 km) southwest of the Ghanaian capital of Accra.
- Cape Cod Canal
- artificial waterway in southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. A part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, it joins Cape Cod Bay (northeast) with the waters of Buzzards Bay (southwest) and traverses the narrow isthmus of Cape Cod. The canal is 17.5 miles (28 ...
- Cape Colony
- British colony established in 1806 in what is now South Africa. With the formation of the Union of South Africa (1910), the colony became the province of the Cape of Good Hope (q.v.), also called Cape Province. [13 Related Articles]
- Cape Coral
- city, Lee county, southwestern Florida, U.S. It is situated on a broad peninsula pointing southward, with Fort Myers just to the northeast across the estuary of the Caloosahatchee River and Pine Island (and the Gulf of Mexico beyond) to the ...
- Cape doctor
- (from the article "Cape Town") ...between southeast and southwest in summer. Southerly winds produce a cloud cover over Table Mountain known as the "tablecloth." These winds are collectively referred to as the "Cape doctor" because they keep air pollution at a low level.
- Cape emerald
- (from the article "Cape emerald") gem-quality prehnite (not emerald). See prehnite.marketing of prehniteprehnite...zeolites. Prehnite has been found in Italy,
- Cape Esperance, Battle of
- (from the article "naval warfare") ...advantages that should have accrued to the Americans at night from superior radar were largely squandered. Between August 1942 and July 1943, in the cruiser-destroyer battles of Savo Island, Cape Esperance, Tassafaronga, Kula Gulf, and Kolombangara, Japanese night tactics prevailed. ...
- Cape Fear River
- river in central and southeastern North Carolina, U.S., formed by the confluence of the Deep and Haw rivers along the boundary between Chatham and Lee counties. It flows generally southeast past Fayetteville, Elizabethtown, and Wilmington and enters the Atlantic Ocean ...
- Cape file snake
- (from the article "file snake") ...coloured. They are active by night on the ground. File snakes are nonvenomous; they prey on frogs, lizards, and other snakes, including venomous ones. Often exceeding 1.5 metres in total length, the Cape file snake (M. capensis) of central Africa ...
- Cape Flats
- low, sandy area extending inland from the peninsular Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape province, South Africa, and occupying most of the isthmus between Table Bay and False Bay. In relatively recent geologic times, the flats were under the sea. ...
- Cape flora
- (from the article "floristic region") ...with the faunal regions (q.v.) as mapped by animal geographers, are often considered with them as biogeographic regions. The chief difference is the recognition by plant geographers of the Cape region of South Africa as a distinct major unit because ...
- Cape Frontier Wars
- (1779-1879), 100 years of intermittent warfare between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles by African peoples against European intrusion, it ended in the ... [8 Related Articles]
- Cape gannet
- (from the article "gannet") ...goose; it breeds on islands in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and northeastern Europe, wintering to the Gulf of Mexico, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. The two slightly smaller southern species are the Cape gannet (M. capensis), which breeds on islands off South ...
- Cape Girardeau
- city, Cape Girardeau county, southeastern Missouri, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (there bridged to Illinois) at the southeast edge of the Ozark Plateau, 100 miles (160 km) south of St. Louis. Established before 1793 by the French Canadian ...
- Cape gooseberry
- (from the article "Physalis") ...which encloses a fleshy berry and which occasionally becomes bright orange-red at maturity. The berries of some species of Physalis are edible, and the plants accordingly go by such names as Cape gooseberry (P. peruviana) and husk tomato (P. pruinosa). ...
- Cape Hatteras National Seashore
- scenic coastal area situated on Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke islands along the Outer Banks, eastern North Carolina, U.S. The park, the country's first national seashore, was authorized in 1937 and established in 1953. It has a total area of 47 ...
- cape jasmine
- (from the article "Gardenia") Cape jasmine (G. augusta), native to China, is the fragrant species sold by florists.
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- undeveloped wilderness area in northwestern Alaska, U.S., on the treeless coast of the Chukchi Sea. It is part of a string of national parks, monuments, and preserves north of the Arctic Circle that stretches eastward for hundreds of miles; Noatak ...
- Cape Lookout National Seashore
- scenic coastal area on the barrier islands of the southern Outer Banks, eastern North Carolina, U.S. The national seashore, created in 1966, has an area of 44 square miles (114 square km). The three islands-North Core Banks, South Core Banks, ...
- Cape Lopez lyretail
- (from the article "lyretail") ...but the males are brilliantly speckled and spotted with reds, yellows, greens, and blues. The tail is fan-shaped with extended filaments at the top and bottom giving the appearance of a lyre. The Cape Lopez lyretail (A. australe), one of ...
- Cape Malay
- (from the article "Coloured") ...and were employed as teachers, clerks, shopkeepers, artisans, and other skilled workers. Those living outside the towns were mostly labourers on white-owned farms. A Muslim minority, the so-called Cape Malays, lived mostly in separate communities and married among themselves for ...
- cape mastic
- (from the article "mastic") Other trees yield resins that are referred to as mastic. In Algeria, Pistacia atlantica yields a solid resin. Cape mastic is the produce of Euryops multifidus, the resin bush, or hairpuis bosch of the Boers-a plant of the family Compositae. ...
- Cape Matapan, Battle of
- (from the article "World War II") Almost simultaneously with the Belgrade coup d'etat, the decisive Battle of Cape Matapan took place between the British and Italian fleets in the Mediterranean, off the Peloponnesian mainland northwest of Crete. Hitherto, Italo-British naval hostilities in the Mediterranean area since ...
- Cape May
- county, extreme southern New Jersey, U.S. It consists of a low-lying peninsula bordered by Delaware Bay and West Creek to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Tuckahoe River and Great Egg Harbor to the north. Offshore ...
- Cape May
- city, Cape May county, at the southern tip of New Jersey, U.S. Originally called Cape Island, it was renamed in 1869 for the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, who visited there in 1623. It is the oldest beach resort in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cape penguin
- (from the article "penguin") ...the chronology of breeding may also vary within a species in relation to latitude. The majority of species breed only once each year. Certain species, such as the Cape, or African, penguin (Spheniscus demersus), probably other members of this genus, ...
- Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- star catalog listing more than 454,000 stars of the 11th magnitude or brighter, between 18° south declination and the south celestial pole. The photographic plates required were made between 1885 and 1890 at Cape Town, South Africa, by the British ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cape Playhouse
- (from the article "Dennis") ...Clipper ships were once built in Shiverick Shipyard (East Dennis). Tourism and other service-related activities are now the basis of the economy, and cranberry cultivation is also important. The Cape Playhouse is a restored colonial meetinghouse and one of the ...
- cape pondweed
- (from the article "pondweed") ...The former group includes frog's lettuce (Potamogeton densus), of Europe and southern Asia, and P. crispus, of Europe but naturalized in the eastern United States and in California. Cape pondweed (Aponogeton distachyus), of the family Aponogetonaceae, has several varieties grown ...
- Cape Province
- former province of South Africa, occupying the southern extremity of the African continent. Prior to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the area was known as the Cape Colony. Cape Province comprised all of southern and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Cape Range
- (from the article "veld") ...4,000 and 6,000 feet (1,200 and 1,800 metres) above sea level. The South African part of the region is bounded to the east and south by the Great Escarpment, which consists of the Drakensberg and Cape ranges, and by the ...
- Cape Range National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...miles across the mouth and has a maximum depth of 72 feet (22 m). Fishing, pearling, prawning, and tourism are the main local industries, and drilling for oil has taken place in the region. Nearby Cape Range National Park is ...
- Cape Sable seaside sparrow
- (from the article "conservation") ...that human actions suppress fire regimes, they also control water levels, and the resulting changes can have important consequences for endangered species. An example of a species so affected is the Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus ...
- Cape Saint Vincent, Battle of
- (from the article "Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount") After a rendezvous with Jervis in the Atlantic off Cape St. Vincent on the previous day, Nelson on Feb. 14, 1797, found himself sailing in mist through a Spanish fleet of 27 ships. The Spaniards were sailing in two divisions ...
- Cape Scott Provincial Park
- (from the article "Vancouver Island") ...Park occupies 847 square miles (2,193 square km) in the central part of the island, while Pacific Rim National Park (193 square miles [500 square km]) is in three sections along the west coast, and Cape Scott Provincial Park (58 ...
- Cape Smith Belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...Comparable ophiolites occur in several Proterozoic orogenic belts and provide strong evidence of the existence of oceanic plates similar to those of today. The oldest is an ophiolite in the Cape Smith belt on the south side of Hudson Bay ...
- Cape spiny mouse
- (from the article "African spiny mouse") ...The golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus), found from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, is one of the largest, with a body up to 25 cm (9.8 inches) long and a shorter tail of up to 7 cm. The Cape spiny mouse ...
- Cape sugarbird
- (from the article "scrubland") ...Protea. The flowers of this extraordinarily diverse flora are pollinated by both insects-but few butterflies-and nectar-eating birds such as sunbirds (Nectarina) and the Cape Sugarbird (Promerops cafer)-animals with which they have coevolved (see community ecology: The coevolutionary process). Seed dispersal ...
- Cape Town
- city and seaport, legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province. The city lies at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula some 30 miles (50 kilometres), at its southernmost boundary, north of the Cape of Good ... [10 Related Articles]
- Cape Town, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The most renowned institution of higher learning is Diocesan College (founded in 1849), located in Rondebosch. The University of Cape Town, also in Rondebosch, developed from South African College (founded in 1829) and formally came into being in 1918. The ...
- Cape tulip
- any plant of the genus Haemanthus of the family Amaryllidaceae, consisting of about 50 species of ornamental South African herbs. Most species have dense clusters of red flowers and broad, blunt leaves that are grouped at the base of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cape Verde
- country comprising a group of islands that lie 385 miles (620 kilometres) off the west coast of Africa, between 14°30' and 17°30' N and between 22°30' and 25°30' W. Praia on Sao Tiago is the capital. [21 Related Articles]
- Cape Verde Basin
- submarine depression in the Atlantic Ocean that rises to meet the submerged Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge to the west and the western African coast to the east. With the contiguous Canary Basin (north), it forms an arc that swings around the ...
- Cape Verde Peninsula
- peninsula in west-central Senegal that is the westernmost point of the African continent. Formed by a combination of volcanic offshore islands and a land bridge produced by coastal currents, it projects into the Atlantic Ocean, bending back to the southeast ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cape Verde, flag of
- horizontally striped national flag with two wide, unequal stripes of blue framing narrower stripes of white-red-white; a ring of 10 yellow stars is set off-centre toward the hoist. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 10 to 17.
- Cape Verde, history of
- (from the article "Cape Verde") There is no evidence of the islands having been inhabited prior to the arrival of the Portuguese, but it is thought that the Moors had visited Sal to collect salt supplies in previous centuries. In 1460 the Portuguese navigators Diogo ...
- Cape wigeon
- (from the article "wigeon") ...which they will steal from diving ducks such as the canvasback. The male Chiloe wigeon (A. sibilatrix) of South America helps raise the young-a rare trait among ducks. The Cape wigeon (A. capensis) of Africa is a nocturnal feeder.
- Cape wolf snake
- (from the article "wolf snake") The Cape wolf snake (Lycophidion capense), abundant from Egypt to South Africa, is a small, drab species with a metallic sheen and lives chiefly on lizards. It can grow to lengths of about 50 cm (20 inches). The common wolf ...
- Cape York Peninsula
- northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into theTorres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria (west) and the Coral Sea (east). From its tip at Cape York it extends southward in Queensland for about 500 miles (800 km), widening to its base, ...
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