Cape
A cape is a coastal landform extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake. A cape is usually more than just a headland and peninsula, having considerable effects on the directions of ocean currents around them.The most important capes :
- Cape Agulhas - South Africa
- Cape Arkona - Germany
- Cape Canaveral - Florida
- Cape Cod - Massachusetts
- Cape Dezhnev - Russia
- Cape of Good Hope - South Africa
- Cape Horn - Chile
- Cape Leeuwin - Australia
- Cape St. Vincent
- Cape Verde - a republic
- Cape York - Australia
- North Cape - Norway
- South East Cape - Australia
A cape can also be an article of clothing, typically worn by superheroes, vampires, or those with superheroic or vampiric pretensions.
While fashionable in the nineteenth century in Europe, capes became associated with fascism in Italy during the 1920s