ness

Noun
  1. A strip of land projecting into a body of water (synset 109256622)
    is a type of: dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface
    subtypes: spit, tongue - a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
    specific instances:
    • cape horn - a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
    • lindesnes, naze - a cape at the southern tip of Norway
    • cape passero, passero cape - a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily
    • cape of good hope - a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)
    • cape may - a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean
    • cape fear - a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean
    • cape flattery - a cape of northwestern Washington
    • cape froward - a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America
    • cape hatteras - a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina
    • cape sable - a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland
    • cape trafalgar - a small cape in southwestern Spain
    • cape york - the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
    • hoek van holland, hook of holland - a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam
    • skagens odde, skaw - a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt
    same as: cape

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