Cape York

Cape York is a cape on the northwestern coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay. It was the one of many places visited in 1894 by Admiral Robert Peary during his second expedition to the Arctic. It is mainly notable to be the site of discovery of the Cape York Meteorite....

The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world. The iron masses were known to Inuit as Ahnighito , weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weighing 3...

Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. This remote peninsula contains some of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth, though about half of the land area is used for grazing cattle and much has been damaged by feral pigs, weeds, and other...