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    Which Alaskan cape is thought to have taken its name from someone misreading what was marked on a map of the area?

    Question #67649. Asked by gmackematix. (Jun 29 06 7:06 PM)


    peasypod

    		This could be Point Miraballes, which was really Miravalles. (Meaning Valleys Lookout Point)

    http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-Spanish2.htm

    Jun 29 06, 7:25 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Cape Nome had received its name from a copying error, when a British mapmaker copied an annotation from a map made by a British officer had made on a voyage up the Bering Strait. The officer had written "? Name" next to the unnamed cape. The mapmaker misread the annotation as "C. Nome", or Cape Nome, and used that name on his map.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome%2C_Alaska

    Jun 29 06, 7:47 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Just happened to know that because I'm from up there.

    Jun 29 06, 7:48 PM
    gmackematix

    		Yay Zbeck! Just keep clicking your heels and saying "There's no place like Nome"...

    Jun 30 06, 12:24 AM

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