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Kanyakumari
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Cape Comorin. Southernmost point of the Indian mainland.

Kepi i Rodonit
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Provincetown, MA
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Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA

Cape Horn
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Cape Cod
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County. Several small islands right off Cape Cod, including Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island, and Seconsett Island, are also in Barnstable County, being part of municipalities with land on the Cape. The Cape's small-town character and large beachfront attract heavy tourism during the summer months.
Cape Cod was formed as the terminal moraine of a glacier, resulting in a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1914, the Cape Cod Canal was cut through the base or isthmus of the peninsula, forming an island.

Cape Baba (westernmost point of Asia)
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Cape Baba (Turkish: Baba Burnu, Ancient Greek: Λεκτόν), is the westernmost point of Anatolian part of Turkey, making it the westernmost point of whole Asia. There is a lighthouse at Cape Baba. It was called Cape Lectum in classical times.

Mizen Head, Ireland’s most south-westerly point
mstoess (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mstoess.

Cape Froward (southernmost point of mainland South America)
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Cape Froward is the southernmost point on the mainland of South America. It is located in the North shores of Magellan Strait, being the southern tip of the Brunswick Peninsula; in Chilean territory.
It was the English corsair, Thomas Cavendish, in January 1587, who named the place, after the climate's roughness with rains and winds.

Cape Hatteras
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Point Barrow
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Barrow, Alaska is the Northernmost U.S. town but 9 miles to the northeast of Utqiaġvik is Point Barrow, the northernmost piece of United States land.
(You can see the cape colored mostly purple-ish and a little green. The dark blue extending northward begins at the Point and is open water surrounded by ice. The ice extending to the southeast is the Elson Lagoon.)

Kepi i Palit

Cape Point
Voyager (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Voyager.
Tip of the Cape of Good Hope peninsula

Ras Madrakah

Cape Royds
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Location of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition Hut, inscribed on the World Monument Fund's World Monuments Watch
List for 2006.

Dondra Head
Southernmost point of Sri Lanka.

Cape St. Mary
Also known as Cape Point

Pochnoi Point - Easternmost Point of the U.S.
On the island of Semisopochnoi, this is the Easternmost Point of the United States.
Wait... what? Easternmost Point, shouldn't that be in Maine?!? Technically... no... kind of... sort of... yes and no.
Read the More Info Wikipedia link!

Cap D'Ambre

Bald Cape

Monomoy Point
happenstance (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: happenstance.
Southernmost tip of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.

Kodikarai
Point Calimere. Northern point of the Palk Strait separating India from Sri Lanka.

Frost Point
Northern end of Odiorne Point State Park.

Kepi i Semanit
Where the Seman river empties into the Adriatic Sea.

Cape Spear
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
Easternmost point of Canada. Would also be easternmost point of North America without Greenland.

Cape Lookout
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Vjosë (or Aóos) River Delta
The Vjosë, starting in Greece as the Aóos, empties into the Adriatic Sea here at this cape which I cannot find a name for while even the tiniest little capes in Albania seem to have names, this one doesn't!

Cape Gloucester (Tuluvu)
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Cape Gloucester (also known as Tuluvu) is a headland, in the northwest of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
During World War II, the Japanese captured New Britain, and had driven most of Cape Gloucester's native population out to construct two airfields. During the New Britain Campaign, American forces had decided to capture Cape Gloucester for its two airfields, to assist planned attacks on the garrison on Rabaul, an important area in New Britain. It became the site of the Battle of Cape Gloucester, part of Operation Cartwheel, in 1943. After long fighting through rain, and Japanese, the United States 1st Marine Division had it declared secured. After the war, the headland was given back to the natives.

Kolkasrags
Cape Kolka (Livonian: Kūolka nanā, Latvian: Kolkasrags, Old High German: Domesnes, Russian: Колка / мыс Домеснес) is a cape on the Baltic Sea near the entry to the Gulf of Riga, on the Livonian coast, in Latvia's Courland Peninsula of. The cape is surrounded by the Irbe Strait, which serves as the natural border with Estonia.

Cap St. André

Punta del Morro

Flat Cap Point

Cape Morris Jesup
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland and is 711.8 km (384 nm / 442 miles) from the geographic North Pole. Robert Peary reached the cape in 1900, believing it to be the northernmost point of land in the world, although it was later found to lie slightly to the south of the northernmost tip of Kaffeklubben Island.
The cape is named after American philanthropist Morris Ketchum Jesup, who helped finance Peary's expeditions.

Cabo de las Flechas
Part of the island of St. Croix.

Finisterre Cape
zelkova (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: zelkova.
On history, this point was the end of the world...

Punta Las Marias

Point Año Nuevo (Cape New Year)
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Cape Quiros
Named in 1774 by Captain Cook in honor of Spanish explorer Quiros who encounted the island in 1606.

Sled Runner Point

Cape Nordkinn (northernmost point of mainland Europe)
Cape Nordkinn (Norwegian: Kinnarodden, also called Nordkyn) is the northernmost point on Nordkinn Peninsula in Finnmark country in northern Norway. It is notable for being the northernmost point of mainland Norway, and by extension the northernmost point of mainland Europe.

Kepi i Lagjit

Tanjung Piai (southernmost point of mainland Asia)
Tanjung Piai is a cape in Johor which is the southernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia and thus the most southern point of mainland Asia. The skyline of Singapore is visible across the Johor Strait from the point. It features seafood restaurants, perched on wooden jetties that are surrounded by a rugged and rarefied coastline of unspoiled mangrove forests.

Cape Cumberland
Named by Captain Cook.

Ras al-Hadd
A popular and important green turtle nesting site.

Odiornes Point
USGS has it listed as Odiornes Point but it seems this prominent New Hampshire point is commonly called Odiorne Point which is the name of the State Park it is located at the south end of.

Cape Prince of Wales (westernmost point of the mainland Americas)
Located on the Seward Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska near the city of Wales, Cape Prince of Wales is the terminus of the Continental Divide, marking the division between the Pacific and Arctic coasts, as well as marking the limit between the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea. It is the eastern boundary of the Bering Strait, 82 km opposite Cape Dezhnev, and adjacent to the Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock.

Da Roca Cape
zelkova (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: zelkova.

Orchard Point

Christmas Point, Elliott Key
Southernmost point of Elliott Key located in Biscayne National Park.

Cape Fie
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Cape Fie (Norwegian: Kapp Fie), located at 54°27′S 3°28′ECoordinates: 54°27′S 3°28′E, is a cape marking the southeast extremity of Bouvet Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was first roughly charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Karl Chun, and was re-charted and named by the Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt who explored the area from the Norvegia in December 1927.

Punta Mariato (southernmost point of mainland North America)

Cape Dezhnev (easternmost point of mainland Eurasia)
Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev (Russian: мыс Дежнёва; formerly East Cape or Cape Vostochny) is a cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Eurasia, on the Chukchi Peninsula in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia. It is located between the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea, 82 kilometers (51 mi) across from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska. The Bering Strait lies in between and the Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock are located in the strait's midst.

Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Chelyuskin (Russian: мыс Челюскина) is the northernmost point of the Eurasian continent, and the northermost point of mainland Russia. It is situated at the tip of the Taymyr Peninsula, south of Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The landhead has a 17 m high light on a framework tower.

Quohog Point
North shore of Mattakeset Bay, part of Katama Bay.

Cape Apostolos Andreas
Cape Apostolos Andreas (Greek: Ακρωτήριο Αποστόλου Ανδρέα; Greek translation Cape Saint Andrew, Turkish: Zafer Burnu; Turkish translation, Cape Victory) is the north-easternmost point (promontory) of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. It lies at the tip of the finger-like Karpass Peninsula.
The famous Apostolos Andreas Monastery is located just south of the promontory itself.

Zlatni Rat - Golden Cape
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Westernmost Point in US
Blue_Scapegoat (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Cape Wrangell on Attu Island (Alaska)

Cape Circoncision
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Cape Circoncision (Norwegian: Kapp Circoncision) is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Bouvet on the 1st of January, 1739, which day is the Feast of the Circumcision and so it is named. The cape provided the location for the base-camp of the 1928-29 Norwegian expedition.

Knivskjellodden (northernmost point of Europe)

Pointe du Raz
egenard (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: egenard.

Norvegia Point
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Norvegia Point is a point 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Cape Circoncision on the west side of Bouvetøya. First roughly charted from the Valdivia in 1898 by a German expedition under Karl Chun. Recharted in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt. Named by Horntvedt after his expedition ship, the Norvegia.

Cape Sōya - Furthest point north in Japan
Cape Sōya is the northernmost point of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. It is situated in Wakkanai, Sōya Subprefecture. The Monument of the Northernmost Point of Japan is at the cape, although the true northernmost point under Japanese control is a small deserted island called Bentenjima, 1 km northwest. Since the cape is just 43 km away across La Perouse Strait from Cape Crillon, Sakhalin Island, Russia, it is possible to catch a glimpse of the island of Sakhalin on a clear day.
There are more than ten monuments at Cape Sōya, including the Monument of the Northernmost Point of Japan, the Tower of Prayer (a memorial of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983), a statue of Mamiya Rinzō, the Monument of Peace (a memorial of USS Wahoo), and others. Sōya Misaki settlement, east of the cape, has many facilities known to be "the northernmost in Japan", such as the northernmost lighthouse (Cape Sōya Lighthouse), the northernmost filling station (Idemitsu Cape Sōya SS), the northernmost elementary school (Ōmisaki Elementary School), and so on.

Cape Meteor
Cape Meteor is a cape marked by steep cliffs which forms the east extremity of Bouvetøya. The cape was roughly charted in 1898 by the German expedition under Karl Chun. Named after the Captain F. Spiess visited Bouvetoya in 1926. The name appears on a British chart based upon a 1930 survey by personnel on the Discovery II, but this may reflect an earlier naming.

Cape Alexander
Cape Alexander (Greenlandic: Ullersuaq, also Uvdlerssuak and Sarfalik; Danish: Kap Alexander) is the westernmost point in Greenland.

Punta Pariñas
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.
The westernmost point of the South American continent

Cape Fligely (northernmost point of Eurasia)
Cape Fligely (Russian: Мыс Флигели; Mys Fligeli) is the northernmost point of Europe, Eurasia, Afro-Eurasia and Russia and is 911 km from the North Pole. It is located on the northern shores of Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Russian Federation.
This cape was first visited on 12 April 1874 by Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition and named after Austrian cartographer August von Fligely (1811–1879).

Cato Point
Cato Point is a headland forming the southwest extremity of Bouvet Island. It was first charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Karl Chun. The Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt made a landing here from the Norvegia in December 1927; they applied the name.

Cape Peron

Ponta do Seixas
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.
The easternmost point of the South American continent

Cape Valdivia
Cape Valdivia (Norwegian: Kapp Valdivia) is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island, a subantarctic island administered by Norway. It lies in the centre of the island's north coast, immediately to the north of Olav Peak, the island's highest point. To the west lies Cape Circoncision, from which Cape Valdivia is separated by a five kilometre stretch of coastline known as the Morgenstiern Coast.

Cape Lollo
Cape Lollo (Norwegian: Kapp Lollo), is a cape which forms the northeast extremity of Bouvetøya. First charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Karl Chun. Recharted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt.

Christmas Tree Point
Southeast coast of Tanaga Island.

Cape St. Charles (easternmost point of mainland North America)

Cape Point
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Cape Cross

Arpoador
fin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fin.

Cape Taputapu

Cape du Couedic and Casuarina Islet

Cape Enrage

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

Spruce Cape - Kodiak Island
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Cape Fugui (northernmost point of Taiwan)

Homigot

Kunoyarnakkur
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Cape Kolka
Cape Kolka (Livonian: Kūolka nanā, Latvian: Kolkasrags, Old High German: Domesnes, Russian: Колка / мыс Домеснес) is a cape on the Baltic Sea near the entry to the Gulf of Riga, on the Livonian coast, in Latvia's Courland Peninsula of. The cape is surrounded by the Irbe Strait, which serves as the natural border with Estonia.

Cape Arasaki

Cape Gazert
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Point of Ayre
Mike_bjm (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike_bjm.
The Point of Ayre is the most northerly point on the Isle of Man and is the termination point of Ramsey Bay. It lies 6 miles north of Ramsey as the crow flies.
The Point of Ayre is closer to Scotland than it is to the Isle of Man’s Capital, Douglas.
The coastline in this area is changing as evidenced by the presence of the two lighthouses. The smaller lighthouse was built some 70 years after the taller lighthouse and is 250 yards closer to the sea than the original.
The newer lighthouse was moved in 1950 due to the continued build-up of pebbles on the beach and at the same time it was increased in height.

Cape Kyan

Ras Hafun
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Port St. Mary Ledges
Mike_bjm (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike_bjm.
These intertidal limestone ledges are one of only two which remain intact on the Isle of Man following the construction of the Ronaldsway Airport runway extension. They are recognised as one of the best rocky shores in the British Isles for marine ecological studies.
The Carboniferous Limestone here is part of the Knock Rushen formation and consists of thick, fine grained carbonate mud, containing fossils of corals, Bryozoa, brachiopods and crinoids.
The fossil evidence in the rocks suggests that this area was sometime between 350 to 300 million years ago whilst the present of overturned brachiopods and ancient ripple marks suggest that deposition occurred in a lagoon.

Cap Matauaoa
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Cape Laurens