Thu, Feb 21st 2008, 00:00
Technically Cape Cod is a peninsula ... this elbow shaped land is surrounded by water.
Cape Cod is a curious piece of land jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean on America's east coast with Cape Cod Bay to the north, Buzzards Bay on the west, Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds on the south and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
On the other hand, Cape Cod could be considered an island – the Cape Cod Canal, built from 1909, traverses the narrow piece of land that connects the peninsula from mainland Massachusetts. You reach Cape Cod over one of the three bridges that spans this man-made waterway.
Cape Cod’s geography is linked to the massive sheet of ice that lay across most of northern USA and Canada in aeons past. It reached its southern most point, near present day New York 23,000 years ago before retreating. The melting of this vast ice mass deposited masses of material in parts and rising sea levels resulted in the curious elbow shaped peninsula of Cape Cod.
Cape Cod is divided into four areas stretching from the Cape Cod Canal in the north – this is the Upper Cape – to mid-Cape with her beaches looking out onto the Nantucket Sound. The town of Hyannis has a harbour with ferries to reach the outlying Nantucket Island.
Lower Cape is a narrow portion of the Cape which bends sharply north once more, leading to outermost portions of the Outer Cape. This is where some of America’s most beautiful beaches can be found.
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