Cape York

Cape York may refer to:

  • Cape York (Greenland), a cape at the north-west coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay
  • Cape York meteorite, meteorite found in 1894 near Cape York, Greenland
  • Cape York Peninsula, a large peninsula located in Queensland, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words cape and/or york:

    “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)