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Cabo da Roca. / 38.78083°N 9.50056°W / 38.78083; -9.50056. Cabo da Roca ( Portuguese: [ˈkaβu ðɐ ˈʁɔkɐ]) or Cape Roca is a cape which forms the westernmost point of the Sintra Mountain Range, of mainland Portugal, of continental Europe, and of the Eurasian landmass. [1] It is situated in the municipality of Sintra, near Azóia ...
List of capes of Turkey. A cape (headland) ( Turkish: burun) is a point of land extending into the sea. Turkey, being a country of two big peninsulas ( Anatolia and Thrace) is surrounded by four seas and has many capes. The surrounding seas (counter-clockwise from the north) are the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the ...
The cape is a symbol for superheroes in the American comic book genre. [3] They are often used by comic book artists to create the illusion of motion in a still image. Most often, they are worn by heroes like Superman merely as a costume adornment. Other times, as in the case of Batman, The Shroud, Cloak of Cloak & Dagger and cloak of Doctor ...
The Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, (some 300 million years ago) where the glacially scoured (smoothed and striated) ancient bedrock (re-exposed by erosion) was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene ...
12.8/km 2 (33.2/sq mi) Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Miꞌkmaq: Unamaꞌki) [5] is a rugged and irregularly shaped island [6] on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. It marks both the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. Cape Horn was identified by mariners and first rounded in 1616 by the Dutchmen Willem Schouten and Jacob ...
In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. [1] A cape usually represents a marked change in trend of the coastline, often making them important landmarks in sea navigation. This also makes them prone to natural forms of erosion, mainly tidal actions, resulting in a relatively short ...
Net income. £ 23.5 million (2013) [1] Number of employees. 18,000 (2014) [2] Website. www.capeplc.com. Cape plc is a British energy services company based in West Drayton, Middlesex. It was acquired by Altrad in September 2017.