Coastal and Oceanic Landform (25. Headland)

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• A headland is a point of land.

• Usually high.

• Often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.

• A headland of considerable size often being called a cape.

•  A headland referred to as simply a head.

Africa

• Cap-Vert, Senegal
• Good Hope, South Africa
•  Agulhas, South Africa
•  Blanc, Mauritania

Asia

•  Dezhnev, Russia
• C Engano, Philippines
• Indira Point,India
• Kanyakumari,Tamil Nadu, India

Europe

• Beachy Head, England
• Cabo da Roca, Portugal
• Cabo de São Vicente / Sagres, Portugal
• Cap Gris Nez, France
• Cape Arkona, Germany

North America

Canada

• Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
• Cape Chidley, Newfoundland and Labrador/Nunavut
• Cape Columbia 

Hanauma Bay and Koko Crater at Koko Head, Oahu, USA

United States

• Cape Canaveral, Florida
• Cape Charles, Virginia
• Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
• Cape Fear, North Carolina

Mexico

• Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Greenland

• Cape Farewell, Greenland's southernmost point

Cape Farewell

South America

Cape Horn

• Cape Froward, Chile
• Cape Horn, Chile, South America's southernmost point
• Cape Virgenes, Argentina

Oceania

Australia

• Cape Leeuwin
• Cape York
• South East Cape

New Zeland

Cape Reinga,

• Cape Egmont
• Cape Foulwind
• Cape Reinga
• East Cape