Greenland by the Polar Sea: The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

* Cape Melville

It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park east of Cape Melville in Princess Charlotte Bay.

An example of a drawing, of " Paradise ", her South African residenceAnne moved to London where she met and was married in 1793 to Andrew Barnard, 12 years her junior, a son of Thomas Barnard, the Bishop of Limerick, for whom she obtained from Henry Dundas ( 1st Viscount Melville ) an appointment as colonial secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, which was then under British military occupation.

In White-Jacket, Herman Melville wrote, " But if you want the best idea of Cape Horn, get my friend Dana's unmatchable Two Years Before the Mast.

This next passage, describing Dana's first sighting of an iceberg off Cape Horn, “ reminds us of Melville ” and “ other passages seem to anticipate him ”.

There are several outstanding landforms on the peninsula: the large expanses of undisturbed dunefields at the eastern coast around Shelburne Bay and Cape Bedford-Cape Flattery ; the huge piles of black granite boulders at Black Mountain National Park and Cape Melville ; and the limestone karsts around Palmerston in the Cape ’ s far south.

Middle Devonian Miospores from the Cape De Bray, Weatherall, and Hecla Bay Formations of Northeastern Melville Island, Canadian Arctic.

William Whitney had a well known older brother, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney ( 1839 – 1923 ), president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, and later founder of the Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island.

A memorial stone to " The Pearlers " who were lost to the cyclone, naming 11 Europeans but only citing " over 300 coloured men " for the other seamen, was erected on Cape Melville.

From Cape Don, the western point of the peninsula, to Soldier Point in the east of Melville Island, the distance is 28 km.

Cape Melville ( Mys Mel ' villya ), Henrietta's northernmost landhead, is the northernmost point of the De Long Islands, a well as the northernmost land thousands of miles east and west.

Melville includes the Razor-back as a separate " chapter ", but states ( in the voice of Ishmael ) that he has only observed him at a distance off Cape Horn.

At age twelve he started working in a commercial fishing fleet based on Cape Cod and at nineteen he signed on for a three-year voyage on a whaler headed for the South Pacific ; it was the same year ( 1841 ) that Herman Melville shipped out of the same port bound for the same whaling grounds.

Cape Melville Lighthouse on the southern point of Balabac Island, circa 1892.

The most easterly point of the bay is Cape Melville.

Protected areas around the bay include Cliff Island National Park, Lakefield National Park and Cape Melville National Park.

In 1993 Pearson acted as representative to the traditional owners in the first land claim to the Flinders Island and Cape Melville National Parks, a claim which was successful, although the owners have yet to receive title.

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 Cape — and 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.

It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive ( administrative ) and de facto national capital ; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.

Cape Breton University serves more than 3, 400 full-time and part-time students who hail from local, regional and national locations.

Prior to its incorporation into the national park this section constituted the Cape Point Nature Reserve ;

Both the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point offer spectacular scenery, the whole of the southernmost portion of the Cape Peninsula is a wild, rugged, scenic, and generally unspoiled national park.

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

Norwegian ships continued to use the Danish civil ensign distinguished with the national arms in the canton north of Cape Finisterre, but had to fly the Swedish civil ensign in the Mediterranean to be protected from pirate attacks.

The Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, adopted by the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Children and UNICEF at a symposium on the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social regeneration of child soldiers in Africa in April 1997, proposed that African Governments should adopt and ratify the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict raising the minimum age from 15 to 18, and that African Governments should ratify and implement other pertinent treaties and incorporate them into national law.

In state and national elections, Atlantic County is a reliably Democratic county, in contrast to the other three counties on the Jersey Shore, Monmouth, Ocean, and Cape May Counties, which tend to lean heavily Republican.

The eastern edge of the national park from Cape Donington to Cape Catastrophe form the western border of the Spencer Gulf.

The southern edge of the national park curls southward from Mary Ellis Wreck Beach in the west, to West Point and Cape Catastrophe in the East.

Rocky Cape is a national park in Tasmania ( Australia ), approximately 400 km northwest of Hobart.

fr: Parc national de Rocky Cape

Cape Arid National Park is a national park in Western Australia ( Australia ), south-east of Perth.

Cape Le Grand National Park is a national park in Western Australia, south-east of Perth and east of Esperance.

Cape Range National Park is a national park in Western Australia, north of Perth.

West Cape Howe National Park is a national park in Western Australia ( Australia ), southeast of Perth.

Cape Hillsborough is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 837 km northwest of Brisbane.

Cape Palmerston is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 748 km northwest of Brisbane.

Cape Upstart is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1016 km northwest of Brisbane.

The national park encompasses the Cape Capricorn headland.