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)

    “She’s me. She represents everything I feel, everything I want to be. I’m so locked into her that what she says is unimportant.”
    —Diane Valleta, White American suburbanite. As quoted in the New York Times, p. A13 (July 29, 1992)