Many consider these among Cape Cod's most desirable for swimming and windsurfing.

Today, Eastham is mostly known as the " Gate " to the Cape Cod National Seashore, which was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to protect Cape Cod's coast from erosion and overpopulation.

Cape Cod's three major east-west routes, U. S. Route 6, Route 6A and Route 28, all run through the town.

For generations, areas like the Gulf of Maine and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary ( part of the inner waters formed by Cape Cod's hooked shape ) have been important feeding grounds for these species: to this day a very large portion of the waters off the Eastern Seaboard are rich in sand lance and other nutritious treats for mothers to teach their calves to feed on.

By morning, 102 pirate corpses were washed up on the shoreline, and hundreds of Cape Cod's notorious wreckers ( locally known as " moon-cussers ") were already plundering the remains.

Cape Cod's Chris Ross was brought into the fold as the bands first Brutal Death Metal Vocalist delivering a Brutal Live performance.

It is Cape Cod's major airport as well as an air hub for the Cape and the Islands ( Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket ).

On November 10, 2008, Cape 104 flipped their format to 24 / 7 Christmas Music for the holiday season, renaming themselves " Cape Cod's Christmas Station, Cape 104.

Cape Cod's only freeway service plaza is at this intersection.

The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.

Shipbuilding peaked in the 1850s, marked in 1851 by the full rigged ship Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever built in Cape Breton.

The Sydney waterfront, focal point of the largest population centre on Cape Breton Island.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

It is the island's largest commercial centre and home to the Cape Breton Post daily newspaper, as well as one television station, CJCB-TV ( CTV ), and several radio stations.

Howe, when major Maritime shipyards and factories, as well as Canada's largest steel mill, located in Cape Breton Island, fared poorly.

* Harwich also contains the largest lake on the Cape, called Long Pond, which serves as a private airport for planes with the ability to land on water which is in the village of Pleasant Lake.

The municipal library, the Brooks Free Library in Harwich Center, is the largest and is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing library network.

North of Fernao Veloso and Memba the largest bays are Pemba ( where there is commodious anchorage for heavy draught vessels ), Montepuesi and Tunghi, the last named having for its northern arm Cape Delgado, the northernmost point on Mozambique's coast.

* Cape York – One of the largest meteorites in the world.

Today, the Beaton Institute is the second largest public archive in Nova Scotia and operates as a regional archive for Cape Breton Island.

9 p. m .) – Cascadia earthquake: One of the largest earthquakes known ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island spreading along more than 600 miles ( 966 km ) of North America's West Coast to Cape Mendocino in northern California.

All iron ore mined at the sites is transported on the Hamersley & Robe River railway, one of the world's largest privately owned railroads to either the port of Dampier, Western Australia or Cape Lambert near Wickham, Western Australia.

The Cape Colony became by far the largest component of the new union, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as British Bechuanaland ( not to be confused with the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana ), Griqualand East ( the area around Kokstad ) and Griqualand West ( area around Kimberley ).

The 2011 population of the Sydney census area, was 31, 597, making it the largest population centre on Cape Breton Island.

In recent decades, Cape Breton Island has become home to a significant tourism industry, with Sydney ( as the island's largest urban centre ) being a prime beneficiary.

The Drakensberg Mountains, the country's largest mountain range, dominate the southern and the eastern border of the Highveld from the Eastern Cape province to the border with Swaziland.

According to 2010 data, Mindelo has a population of 70, 468 inhabitants ( 50, 000 in the mid-1990s ) and is the second largest city in Cape Verde after Praia.

The largest portion of the Huguenots to settle in the Cape arrived between 1688 and 1689 in seven ships as part of the organised migration, but quite a few arrived as late as 1700 ; thereafter, the numbers declined and only small groups arrived at a time.

" Levick observed the Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, the site of the largest Adelie penguin rookery in the world.

While the largest city in the county is Cape Girardeau, the county seat is actually Jackson, which was the first city named in honor of President Andrew Jackson.

The campaign is prominent among three of South Africa's largest social movements: the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, Abahlali baseMjondolo, and the Landless Peoples Movement.

As the largest and longest established state in Southern Africa, the Cape was economically, culturally, and socially dominant: by comparison, the population of Natal and the two Boer republics were mostly pastoralist, subsistence farmers.

Originally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers, Marco Island is the largest barrier island within Southwest Florida's Ten Thousand Islands area extending southerly to Cape Sable.

The first colony on Cape Mesurado was extended, along the coast as well as inland, sometimes by use of force.

Margaret River is located inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.

They contracted with the Lenape Native Americans for land of Old Cape Henlopen north to Sankikans ( Trenton Falls ), and inland as far as they desired.

It also serves as evacuation route from Cape May County to inland areas in the event of a hurricane.

Tourist destinations, other than seaside resorts, include Cape Arkona, the wood-covered Stubbenkammer hills on Jasmund with interesting chalk cliff formations, the wood-covered Granitz hills with their Jagdschloß or hunting lodge, the classicist buildings of Putbus and the inland villages of Bergen auf Rügen, Ralswiek and Gingst.

Initially, the term " Virginia " was applied to the entire eastern coast of North America from the 34th parallel ( near Cape Fear ) north to the 48th parallel, including the shorelines of Acadia and a large portion of inland Canada.

In April 1851, the rate for inland letters to Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island was 3d per ½ oz.

It also serves as part of an evacuation route for Cape May County that feeds into Route 47 to provide access to inland areas in the event of a hurricane.

In the Western Cape Province of South Africa, a heat wave can occur when a low pressure offshore and high pressure inland combine to form a Bergwind.

The N2 highway connecting Cape Town and Durban bypasses the city, while the N6 highway joins East London with the inland city of Bloemfontein.

In 1999, as the receding shoreline had come dangerously close to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the 4830-ton lighthouse was lifted and moved inland a distance of.

Like the other Afrikaans-speaking people, the Boers, the Griqua left the Cape Colony en masse and migrated inland.

By the terms of the charter, the London Company was permitted to establish a colony of 100 miles square between the 34th parallel and the 41st parallel ( approximately between Cape Fear and Long Island Sound ), and also owned a large portion of Atlantic Ocean and inland Canada.

Less closely related is the Robertson Dwarf Chameleon, another aridland species which is found in Western Cape province inland from the range of the Cape Dwarf Chameleon and may be a cryptic species complex, and an undescribed population from the Swartberg mountains.

From the last-mentioned place, the inland navigation, through Stumpy and Toomer's sounds, is continued until a diminished draught of water, and by cutting two low and narrow necks, not exceeding three miles together, to Cape Fear River, and thence by an open but short and direct run along the coast is reached that chain of islands between which and the main the inland navigation is continued, to St, Marys along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

The Sour Fig grows on coastal and inland slopes from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape through the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape.

This exposed positioning however also means severe frost is unknown ; when temperatures at Altnaharra or Kinbrace just or so inland are or below, the temperature at Cape Wrath is often hovering close to freezing.

* From September 1848, he conducted a five month long expedition " from Avon River to Stirling Range, and thence eastward to Russell Range and Cape Pasley on the south coast, and 60 to 100 miles inland, returning by different routes on this occasion discovered coal on the Rivers Fitzgerald and Phillips.

Moerdyk's message as implied by the wall frieze: by exodus out of the British Cape Colony, God created a new civilization inland.