Since the (man-made) Cape Cod Canal completely separates Cape Cod from the mainland, and is deep and wide enough to allow large ships though, would make Cape Cod an island?
2006-09-07 15:04:07 · 24 answers · asked by astrowulf2002 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Boston
No, it is attached to Massachusetts.
2006-09-07 15:09:36 · answer #1 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0⤊ 8⤋
Is Cape Cod An Island
2016-09-29 05:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Is Cape Cod an island?
Since the (man-made) Cape Cod Canal completely separates Cape Cod from the mainland, and is deep and wide enough to allow large ships though, would make Cape Cod an island?
2015-08-16 17:24:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geographically, Cape Cod is a peninsula. It is, however, really closer to being an island, as it is surrounded by water. Originally, the Cape was united with the mainland until the US Army Corps of Engineers—realizing a three-century-old dream—dug the 17½-mile long, 480-foot wide Cape Cod Canal from 1909 to 1914 (the world’s widest sea-level canal), giving “birth” to Cape Cod as an independent land mass and joining Buzzards and Cape Cod Bays
2006-09-07 15:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by submariner662 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Cape Cod (1033 km²; called simply The Cape by Northeasterners) is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the Easternmost portion of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County. Although Cape Cod was originally connected to the mainland, the Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1914, effectively transformed Cape Cod into a large island.
2006-09-09 13:02:15 · answer #5 · answered by glamourgirl718 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Technically, yes it is an island, and has been since the Cape Cod Canal was built about 100 years ago, but it was naturally formed as a peninsula
2016-03-18 04:46:54 · answer #6 · answered by Sandra 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Cape Cod itself is not an island. Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are islands which are considered part of Cape Cod.
2006-09-08 06:07:22 · answer #7 · answered by ShouldBeWorking 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cape Cod is on both sides of the canal, therefor "the Cape" isn t an island. You are on "the Cape when you enter Bourne.
2016-07-09 06:10:31 · answer #8 · answered by seamus 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Cape Cod is a peninsula.
2006-09-10 16:52:16 · answer #9 · answered by sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definition of "island" --
A land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water
-- Sounds like Cape Cod qualifies.
2006-09-07 15:06:30 · answer #10 · answered by Jay 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I am not sure but CAPE COD makes a great potato chip!
2006-09-07 15:09:43 · answer #11 · answered by 38C 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋