Cape Cod

View of Provincetown

Cape Cod (or simply the Cape) is an arm-shaped peninsula in the eastern part of Massachusetts.

Cape Cod's population is around 228,000 (2021).

Cape Cod Media

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The dunes on Sandy Neck are part of the barrier beach that helps prevent coastal erosion.
Detailed map of Cape Cod/Barnstable County
Barnstable County historical map, 1890
Old Harbor Life Saving Station, in the Cape Cod National Seashore
Cape Cod was formed by retreating glaciers
Geologic makeup of Cape Cod
Coastal erosion by wave action (colored buff in this map) brings growth elsewhere by deposition of transported sediment (shown in blue).
View of Cape Cod from the ISS
Cranberry picking in 1906

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