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East Cape

noun

  1. the easternmost point of New Guinea, on Milne Bay
  2. the easternmost point of New Zealand, on North Island
  3. the former name for Cape Dezhnev


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This corresponds with a bay some miles further north, and about forty miles from the East Cape.

Evolution and development, with the exception of firearms, seem to have halted at East cape.

Indeed, the primitive man may be seen at East cape almost as he was thousands of years ago.

At East cape we saw natives who, though apparently alike, did not understand each other's language.

When the Jap girl leaped through the smoke hole of the igloo at East Cape she rolled like a purple ball off the roof.

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