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Great capes. The clipper route from the United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand, by way of the great capes. In sailing, the great capes are three major capes of the continents in the Southern Ocean: Africa 's Cape of Good Hope, Australia 's Cape Leeuwin, and South America 's Cape Horn. [ 1]
This is a list of cities and towns in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
Capes & Cowls is a superhero skirmish game in which two to four players each recruit a team of super-powered characters from the Wyrd City dramatis personæ and send them into battle against opposing teams. The game is played on a specialized “Battleboard” whose color- and number-coded spaces influence character abilities, modify power ...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), or Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, [1] also known as CAPES Foundation, [2] is a Brazilian federal government agency under the Ministry of Education, responsible for quality assurance in undergraduate and postgraduate institutions in Brazil.
Cape Sable is the southernmost point of the United States mainland and mainland Florida. It is located in southwestern Florida , in Monroe County , and is part of the Everglades National Park . The cape is a peninsula issuing from the southeastern part of the Florida mainland , running west and curving around to the north, reaching Ponce de ...
Ice cap. In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) are termed ice sheets. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece, and the second southernmost point in mainland Europe. It separates the Messenian Gulf in the west from the Laconian Gulf in the east. Cape Taenarum in classical antiquity was the site of the city of Taenarum ( Ancient Greek: Ταίναρον), now in ruins.
Cape vulture. The Cape vulture ( Gyps coprotheres ), also known as Cape griffon and Kolbe's vulture, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to southern Africa, and lives mainly in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and in some parts of northern Namibia. It nests on cliffs and lays one egg per year.