cape
Let an agent explain capes as coastal landforms, identify notable capes and their significance, relay navigational and geological information, and separate the landform from the garment and other senses.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain capes as coastal landforms, identify notable capes and their significance, relay navigational and geological information, and separate the landform from the garment and other senses.
A headland, a point of land projecting into a sea, lake or river beyond the adjacent coast, often marking a change in coastline direction and serving as a landmark for navigation, as in the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn and Cape Cod; capes form by differential erosion, deposition or tectonics, and the word also names a sleeveless garment and, in Russian, the spit at Nizhny Novgorod, which the registry lists as aliases.
What it is for: Not applicable; a landform, historically a navigational landmark.
It can be explain formation and kinds; identify notable capes; relay navigational and geological information; separate senses.
Distinguishing features
Projection into water
Landmark role
Erosional or depositional origin
Named features worldwide
What it looks like
A point of land projecting into water, often with cliffs, a lighthouse or a beach at its tip.
How it is recognised
Land projecting into water
Marks a turn in the coast
A spit is a depositional ridge; a peninsula is larger; a cape garment is unrelated
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, a coastal feature
is related to - a larger projection
is confused with - a homonym
In practice
Families and kinds
rocky erosional capes
depositional capes and cuspate forelands
capes at continental extremes such as the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn
river and lake capes and spits such as the Strelka at Nizhny Novgorod
points as smaller headlands
the cape garment, a separate sense
Standards and regulation
Geographic names authorities
Coastal protection and navigation rules
Failure modes and hazards
Navigational hazard
Erosion and collapse
Sense confusion with the garment
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.cape-artifact
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Identify What a cape is.
Identity.
Definition
Definition and formation.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a cape, and how do capes form? definition
- Is the question about the landform or the garment? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How do capes, points, spits and peninsulas differ? definition
- Which entry fits the specific landform? action
Notable Notable capes.
Sources.
Examples
Examples.
Examples
Examples.
- Which capes are notable, and why? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific cape? action
Names
Names.
Names
Names.
- How are capes named and recorded in gazetteers? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Use Navigation and hazards.
Practice.
Navigation
Navigation.
Navigation
Navigation.
- What role do capes play in navigation and lighthouses? provenance
- Which entry fits lighthouse? action
Hazards
Hazards and erosion.
Hazards
Hazards.
- What hazards do capes present to shipping, and how do they erode? provenance
- Which entry fits coastal erosion? action
Context History and culture.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- What role did capes play in exploration and history? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do capes figure in place names, literature and culture? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific cultural reference? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should notable capes be separate entries?
- How should gazetteers be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases for a garment and a specific spit; should they be split off?