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:

    “A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York at 1 o’clock and 50 minutes p.m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen. No living American was so loved and venerated as he.”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)