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In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.
Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.
* Celtic Colours ( Cape Breton, Nova Scotia )
NASA landsat photo of Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (-formerly Île Royale, Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton ) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America.
Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The island is divided into four of Nova Scotia's eighteen counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.
Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 4. 4 % since the previous census in 2006.
Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.
Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely Maritime Archaic natives, ancestors of the Mi ' kmaq, the latter of whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery.
However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).
The first permanently settled Scottish community on Cape Breton Island was Judique, settled in 1775 by Michael Mor MacDonald.

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A line running from Cape Aspro ( 28 ° 16 ' E ) in Asia Minor, to Cum Burnù ( Capo della Sabbia ) the Northeast extreme of the Island of Rhodes, through the island to Cape Prasonisi, the Southwest point thereof, on to Vrontos Point ( 35 ° 33 ' N ) in Skarpanto < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, through this island to Castello Point, the South extreme thereof, across to Cape Plaka ( East extremity of Crete ), through Crete to Agria Grabusa, the Northwest extreme thereof, thence to Cape Apolitares in Antikithera Island, through the island to Psira Rock ( off the Northwest point ) and across to Cape Trakhili in Kithera Island, through Kithera to the Northwest point ( Cape Karavugia ) and thence to Cape Santa Maria () in the Morea.
Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

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The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.
It is sometimes colloquially called " antbear ", " anteater ", or the " Cape anteater " after the Cape of Good Hope.
The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.
Agapanthus umbellatus ) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.
The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.
From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, in 37 ° 21 ′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cape Verde, 17 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E, the most easterly projection, is a distance ( also approximately ) of.
The clipper route, which is the fastest sailing route around the world, follows the ACC around three continental capes-Cape Agulhas ( Africa ), South East Cape ( Australia ) and Cape Horn ( South America ).
Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).
It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Capeand the primary language of the coloured and white communities.
The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.
Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.
Cape Verde is a group of arid Atlantic islands which are home to a number of birds and reptiles and constitute a unique ecoregion in the World Wildlife Fund classification.

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The Army is going to be called the Cape Verdean National Guard, and it will be divided into three semi-autonomous branches:
In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).
The colony was bound by the Orange River Colony, Natal Colony, and Cape Colony it was divided into seven administrative districts-Berea, Leribe, Maseru, Mohales Hock, Mafeteng, Qacha's Nek and Quthing.
The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of, and a group of smaller islands including Cape Horn.
The treaty divided the ( largely undiscovered ) world equally between the Spanish and the Portuguese, along a north-south meridian line 370 leagues ( 1770 km / 1100 miles ) west of the Cape Verde islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Spain.
The county is divided into five townships: Cape Fear, Federal Point, Harnett, Masonboro, and Wilmington.
The county is divided into eight townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( Greenwood ), 2 ( Jonesboro ), 3 ( Cape Fear ), 4 ( Deep River ), 5 ( East Sanford ), 6 ( West Sanford ), 7 ( Pocket ), and 8 ( Tramway ).
Duties created political conflicts which ultimately led to the colony of the Carolinas being divided in 1710 along the Cape Fear river ( named the " Clarendon River " by then ).
Although subdivided into three districts in 1824, Cape Breton County was co-extensive with Cape Breton Island from 1820 to 1835 when the county was divided into three separate and distinct counties:
The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three Districts in 1823.
Cape Breton County was divided into two counties in that year, with Victoria County being subdivided at that time.
The fynbos area has been divided into two very similar ecoregions: the lowland fynbos ( below 300m ) on the sandy soil of the west coast, and the montane fynbos of the Cape Fold Belt.
It was founded by the Pilgrims in 1627 at a site halfway between the two rivers which divided the Cape from the rest of the state.
U. S. Route 6, also known as the Mid-Cape Highway on Cape Cod, passes through the town to the north of Otis Air National Guard Base as a four-lane divided freeway.
As a result of these reforms, Attica was divided into approximately a hundred municipalities, the demes ( dēmoi, δῆμοι ), and also into three large sectors: the city ( ἄστυ ), which comprised the areas of central Athens, Ymittos, Aegaleo and the foot of Mount Parnes, the coast ( παράλια ), that included the area between Eleusis and Cape Sounion and the area around the city ( ἐσωτερικό-μεσογαία ), inhabited by people living on the north of Mount Parnitha, Penteliko and the area east of the mountain of Hymettus.
The Northern Cape Province is divided into five district municipalities, which are subdivided into 27 local municipalities.
At this time, the District was further divided into five administrative divisions: New Madrid, Cape Girardeau, Ste.
The provinces divided in the mainland were Nueva Andalucía, between the Atrato River in the Gulf of Uraba and the Cabo de la Vela in Venezuela, and Castilla del Oro, or Veragua, which stretched from the River Atrato to Cape Gracias a Dios in Central America.
Cape May is a peninsula and island ( divided by a narrow channel ); the southern tip of the island is the southernmost point of the state of New Jersey, United States.
The Mayflower Mall, Cape Breton Island's largest shopping centre, divided the old Wal-Mart location and added three large retailers, Winners, SportChek, and Future Shop.
By that time, the Confederacy had divided the coastal defense into separate districts for command purposes ; the northern part, from near Cape Lookout to the Virginia border, was assigned to Brig.

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