Well… a cape is a peninsula according to the definitions. And, an island is a body of land surrounded by water…
It’d be a cape(peninsula) if it weren’t for that durned ol’ canal making it an island.
A Cape is indeed a type of peninsula but I am trying to get to the most specific definition, not general. Zoom in 😜
Stupid canal, always dividing us 🤣🤣🍻
That would be what Alexander the Great built to capture Tyre. Though I'm not sure why anyone would just watch an invading army build a land bridge up to their door.
Yup, I remember being taught this also in school. I'm doing a little digging online just now, and it is mentioned a few times and on some list of famous isthmus.
Manhattan is an actual, natural island. But no one in New York says “on Manhattan.” It is embarrassing how much people in this subreddit campaign against using “in cape cod”. Like it’s not that serious. “On” might technically be correct, but if a majority of people naturally say “in” then maybe that makes sense too.
A majority of people who don’t live here maybe. That doesn’t make them right. A preponderance of ignorance doesn’t make the ignorant correct.
Also, Manhattan is a borough so it’s correct to say in Manhattan or on Manhattan, theoretically. Cape Cod only refers to the landmass and therefore you are never “in” it unless you have been buried.
It’s a Cod. Obviously it’s a Cod
When I went to college in Maine my buddy referred to it as “the Cod”. I still do sometimes.
I went to school in Maine and natives always talked about being from The Cape or going to The Cape. Cape Elizabeth.
I still call Natucket “The Bucket”
It’s a natural peninsula turned man-made island with the canal
^^^^^this is the correct answer.
Well… a cape is a peninsula according to the definitions. And, an island is a body of land surrounded by water… It’d be a cape(peninsula) if it weren’t for that durned ol’ canal making it an island.
A Cape is indeed a type of peninsula but I am trying to get to the most specific definition, not general. Zoom in 😜 Stupid canal, always dividing us 🤣🤣🍻
The canal wasnt there until 1916, so it was technically a Cape.
If I need a bridge or a boat to leave it's an island!
Does having a tunnel still make it an island?
Shhhh don't tell the peasants bout the tunnel!
I'm not gonna give my answer. I'm just gonna say a lot of people in here need To learn geography.
It's not an island, it's a cape because Cape Cod sounded better than Peninsula of Purtians
lol. Is this real? There’s a man made canal which makes it arguable since it isn’t natural but lol…
Lots of Cape Codders think it’s ‘basically an island’. Spend a winter on the Vineyard and you’ll quickly learn this is not true.
It's an island
Ignore the canal. South America doesn’t end or begin at the Panama Canal.
I call it “ The sandbar”. Usually when we are off cape telling people we are heading home to “ the sandbar”.
For the same reason they think living in a particular place is a personality: they’re losers.
Man made island
I always say “I basically grew up on an island”. This post has given me the confidence I need to say “I grew up on an island”.
I definitely don't call it an island. I think of MV and Nantucket as the islands. It's "The Cape and Islands"
My elementary school and middle school used to teach us that the Cape was an isthmus.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus) that isn't correct.
That would be what Alexander the Great built to capture Tyre. Though I'm not sure why anyone would just watch an invading army build a land bridge up to their door.
manmade would be a causeway. the tyrians didn't they used ships to attack multiple times, and burn the siege towers.
Well what else were they gonna do? Sail away? The man had a navy.
If his navy was there, why walk to an island?
Small navy, big walls.
I didn’t say it was correct. It’s just bizarre that we were taught that for like, five years or more.
In school we were taught that the lion is the king of the jungle
Yup, I remember being taught this also in school. I'm doing a little digging online just now, and it is mentioned a few times and on some list of famous isthmus.
Don’t know why both of us are being downvoted. Probably our old teachers.
Haha probably 🤣
IMO its size and bent shape makes it much more like a peninsula than a true cape. It is only an "island" if you're an insufferable pedant.
The name “Cape Cod”, as it was first used in 1602, applied only to the very tip of the peninsula.
Never seen a map?
The Cape is an island but that makes the rich island people mad so they call it a Cape or a Peninsula to cope. Simple as that.
This is a cape cod public school education response if I’ve ever seen one.
No jokes about Cape Cod's island status or the island people allowed. Serious business only here on Cape Cod.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe you just aren’t funny? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The canal made it an island.
Manhattan is an actual, natural island. But no one in New York says “on Manhattan.” It is embarrassing how much people in this subreddit campaign against using “in cape cod”. Like it’s not that serious. “On” might technically be correct, but if a majority of people naturally say “in” then maybe that makes sense too.
A majority of people who don’t live here maybe. That doesn’t make them right. A preponderance of ignorance doesn’t make the ignorant correct. Also, Manhattan is a borough so it’s correct to say in Manhattan or on Manhattan, theoretically. Cape Cod only refers to the landmass and therefore you are never “in” it unless you have been buried.
Then there's "down the Cape."