Cape Cod is an arm-shaped peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. The name Cape Cod, coined in 1602 by Bartholomew Gosnold, is the ninth oldest English place-name in the U.S.
Cape Cod National Seashore
The Cape and Islands
The dunes on Sandy Neck are part of the barrier beach that helps prevent coastal erosion.
Old Harbor Life Saving Station, in the Cape Cod National Seashore
Bartholomew Gosnold was an English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. He is considered by Preservation Virginia to be the "prime mover of the colonization of Virginia".
American 20th Century, figurehead from the "Bartholomew Gosnold"
Gosnold at Cuttyhunk, 1602 by Albert Bierstadt (Oil on canvas. 1858. New Bedford Whaling Museum.)
Stone cross marking what is believed to be the gravesite of Bartholomew Gosnold