CAPE YORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cape York mean? 

• CAPE YORK (noun)
  The noun CAPE YORK has 1 sense:

1. the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland

  Familiarity information: CAPE YORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPE YORK (noun)

Meaning:

The northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)

Holonyms ("Cape York" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea)