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It was England’s Bartholomew Gosnold who gave the Cape its name after the plentiful cod he found here in 1602. And of course, everyone knows that in 1620 the Pilgrims landed here first before they decided to go on to Plymouth to settle. Over 400 years later, visitors increase the population two and sometimes three times in the summer. Not bad for a glacial deposit formed in the last Ice Age. But it was due to this geological formation that the peninsula that was Cape Cod has its distinct form in the shape of a hook, jutting farther out than any other part of the U.S. on the Atlantic Ocean. It is 64 miles long in total and its width varies from one to 16 miles. In Chatham, the land bends and extends northward for over 20 miles.
With the completion of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914, Cape Cod became a bridged island, surrounded by the waters of Buzzard’s Bay to the west, Nantucket and Vineyard sounds to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Cape Cod Bay to the north.
Cape Cod consists of 15 towns, with each town having an assortment of villages. The Upper Cape refers to the area including Falmouth, Bourne, Sandwich and Mashpee. Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis are considered Mid-Cape, Brewster, Harwich, and Chatham comprise the Lower Cape area, and the Outer Cape includes the towns of Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown. For clarification, Barnstable is the largest town on the Cape. Barnstable is also a village within the town, and the entire Cape is in Barnstable County.
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