CAPE COD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Basic facts
• Interesting facts
• Why would you settle here?

Cape Cod juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.

Cape Cod is 105 kilometers long.

Where Cape Cod meets Massachusetts there is the Cape Cod Canal.

In 1640 the first pilgrims settled in Cape Cod.

Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are both islands of the shore of Cape Cod.

The last Ice Age glacier created Cape Cod.

Humans have occupied and traversed Cape Cod for over 10,000 years.

There are over 1,000 reported shipwrecks near Cape Cod.

Cape Cod was named by Bartholomew Gosnald in 1602.

Cape Cod is home of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

IMPACT ON SETTLEMENT

You would want to settle here because it is great for fishing, recreation, and because it's beautiful. You would not want to settle here because it is very cold in the winter and the shores are filled with treacherous rocks.

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