This article has as a subject the geographical courses, for the other significances of the word " cap" and of the CAPE initials, to see the page of homonymy CAPE.

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In Geography, a course or a point is a projection of the coast in the sea. Cape is a word Occitan meaning head , end.

Formation

The current courses were formed during the stabilization of the level of the oceans at the end of the last Glaciation. Indeed, the erosion caused by the waves and the currents marine eroded the zones tender of the coasts and cleared the harder zones which then formed of the courses. Other courses are composed of Sédiment S pieces of furniture, generally of sand, which are deposited by the marine currents according to the same process as for the Tombolo S.

Famous Capes in the world

• Northern Cape (Norway)
• Cape Horn (Chile)
• Cape of the Needles (South Africa)
• Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
• Cape Bojador (the Western Sahara)
• Cape Leeuwin (Australia)
• Cape Finisterre (Spain)
• Manual Cape (Senegal)
• White Cape (Tunisia)
• Cape Foulwind (New Zealand)

Great French courses

• Cape White-nosed monkey
• Cape Gray-Nose
• Cape Tag
• Cape Sizun
• Cape d' Antibes
• Cape d' Ail
• Cape Corsica Small cross
• Cape
• Point of the Strong current
• Point of Low register

Related articles

• Bay
• Gulf
• Peninsula
• Peninsula
• Tombolo

Source

• Géoressources - Formation of the courses and the bays

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