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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- For names of actual capes, see the specific element of the names; for example, Hatteras, Cape; Good Hope, Cape of. Other geographic names beginning with Cape are entered under Cape; for example, Cape Town, South Africa; Cape York Peninsula.
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- proper noun South Africa The
Cape of Good Hope or Cape Province,South Africa
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Examples
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Vesuvius and the city of Naples were seen on the coast beyond, with many a bay and lofty cape of that long tract of bold and gaily-coloured scenery, which extends toward Cape
The Italian 2004
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CAPE TOWN: Business Bulletin, the official mouthpiece of the Cape
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CAPE TOWN - South Africa's government has asked a cabinet committee to examine the effects of moving parliament from Cape
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CAPE TOWN - South African rescue workers said a Chinese ship that sank with all 36 hands in a severe winter storm triggered an oil pollution crisis along the Cape where continuing rain has flooded poor shantytowns.
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CAPE TOWN, June 29 (Reuter) - An aerial survey on Wednesday showed more oil could be leaking from the Apollo Sea bulk carrier which sank off the Cape coast last week, a pollution official said on Wednesday.
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CAPE TOWN June 24 Sapa One of the first non-racial council elections in South Africa was held in Citrusdal in the Cape on
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Between the latter cape and the low projection of Cape
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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The cape he called _Tormentoso_ (tempestuous) was renamed by his sovereign, João II, Cape _Bon Esperanto_ -- the Cape of Goad
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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At the left we saw a cape and an island, and we named them Cape Fermoso and Cape
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Kept working to this land which I rather think is part of the same that on the 6th I saw and supposed it to be the northernmost cape, Cape
The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904
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