كيپ كد

كيپ كد
Cape Cod
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Cape Cod National Seashore
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كيپ كد (مقاطعة بارن‌ستيبل)، في مساتشوستس
البلدالولايات المتحدة
المنطقةنيو إنگلاند
المسحات المائية المحيطة
الإحداثيات41°41′N 70°12′W / 41.68°N 70.2°W / 41.68; -70.2
المساحة339 sq mi (880 km2)[1]
الارتفاع306 ft (93 m)

كيپ كد Cape Cod هو رأس بحري يمتد في المحيط الأطلسي في أقصى الأجزاء شرقاً في ولاية مساتشوستس، في شمال شرق الولايات المتحدة. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. In 1914, the Cape Cod Canal was cut through the base or isthmus of the peninsula, turning nearly all of Cape Cod into what would technically be described as an island (though this term is not common in everyday speech).

Cape Cod is approximately co-extensive with مقاطعة بارن‌ستيبل، though small portions of the towns of Bourne and Sandwich lie west of the canal. Both road bridges connecting the Cape to the mainland cross the canal: the Sagamore Bridge and the جسر بورن. In addition, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge carries railway freight and limited passenger services onto the Cape. Cape territory is divided into fifteen towns with many villages; Provincetown lies at the tip of the peninsula.

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منطقة كيب كد والجزر

The Cape and Islands


الجغرافيا والتقسيمات السياسية

Dunes on Sandy Neck, part of the barrier beach that helps prevent coastal erosion

البلدات والقرى

خريطة تاريخية لمقاطعة بارن‌ستيبل، 1890


كيپ كود والجزر

إلى الجنوب من كيب كد، يقع Nantucket Sound؛ نانتكت وMartha's Vineyard, both large islands; and the mostly privately owned Elizabeth Islands.

القطاعات

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Old Harbor Life Saving Station, in the Cape Cod National Seashore


الجيولوجيا

"East of America, there stands in the open Atlantic the last fragment of an ancient and vanished land. Worn by the breakers and the rains, and disintegrated by the wind, it still stands bold."

Henry Beston, The Outermost House

Cape Cod was formed by retreating glaciers[2]

Cape Cod is part of a continuous archipelagic region consisting of a thin line of islands stretching toward New York, historically known by naturalists as the Outer Lands. This continuity is because the islands and Cape are all terminal glacial moraines laid down some 16,000 to 20,000 years ago.

History

Cranberry picking in 1906

Cape Cod was a landmark for early explorers. It may have been the "Promontory of Vinland" mentioned by the Norse voyagers (985–1025). The Manomet River area (taken up by the western end of the Cape Cod Canal in the early 20th century) is claimed by some to have been visited by Leif Eiriksson,[3] and a stone wall[4] discovered in Provincetown in 1805 is also claimed to have been built by his younger brother Thorvald Eiriksson around 1007 AD,[5] when according to Norse sagas, the keel of his ship was repaired in the harbor. He was killed later in the same journey, and is said to have been returned to this spot for burial.[6] However, there is no tangible support of the presence of Norse voyagers in Cape Cod,[7] and the view is not generally accepted by archaeologists or historians.[8][9]

Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 approached it from the south. He named Martha's Vineyard Claudia, after Claude of France, the wife of Francis I of France.[10] In 1525, Portuguese explorer Estêvão Gomes, sailing under the Spanish crown, called it Cabo de la Arenas.[11]

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الهامش

Notes

  1. ^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم <ref> غير صحيح؛ لا نص تم توفيره للمراجع المسماة USCG
  2. ^ "Provincetown Spit, Cape Cod, Massachusetts". NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved May 2, 2006.
  3. ^ "Aptucxet Trading Post, Bourne Historical Society, Bourne, Cape Cod, MA". Bourne Historical Society. Retrieved Feb 27, 2011.
  4. ^ Jennings, Herman A. (1890). Provincetown, or, odds and ends from the tip end. Yarmouthport, Massachusetts: F. Hallett, Printer. pp. 9–14.
  5. ^ Tager, Jack and Jennifer L. Herman (2008). Massachusetts Encyclopedia. North American Book Dist LLC. p. 280. ISBN 9781878592651.
  6. ^ Bailey, Anthony (1999). The Coast of Summer: Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod. Sheridan House, Inc. p. 154. ISBN 9781574090741.
  7. ^ Stockwell, Mary (2006). A Journey Through Maine. Gibbs Smith. p. 48. ISBN 9781423624165.
  8. ^ Baer, Chris. "HISTORY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD". Historical Records of Dukes County, Massachusetts. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
  9. ^ David J. Weber (1992). The Spanish frontier in North America. Yale University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-300-05917-5. Retrieved March 18, 2012.

Sources

Geologic History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)

وصلات خارجية

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