Cape Cod
This is a satellite view of Cape Cod, from 568 miles above the earth. Most of the woodlands appear reddish and the water areas appear black
Cape Cod in New England was born about eleven thousand years ago during the last glacial period. The ice that covered the north hemisphere around the globe reached where the New York city is located today and the city of Lisbon, Portugal . When the ice started melting way, due to the increase of temperature of the earth, the huge pieces of ice, bought down debris with boulders and created the Cape Cod as we know it today.
An aerial view of the tip of Cape Cod
The Portuguese navigators when they came to New England, more than five centuries ago, named Cape Cod, the Cape of the Arenas or the Cape of Sand!.. Such a name was indeed very descriptive then, in as much it still fits today the geographic description of the Cape Cod...
Cape Cod National Seashore
Note the fine sand
The name of Cape Cod was originated by the extreme abundance of cod fish in the waters of New England. Cod fish became the main industry and richness of New England causing many families, especially in Boston area to became aristocratic due to the richness conceived by the cod fish!...
These dunes and seashore impressed the Portuguese navigators for them to call it first the Cape of Sands...
Cod fish even became the icon symbol of Massachusetts. Today a large Codfish made of wood hangs from the Capitol in Boston as a symbol of Massachusets.