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The Battle of Cape Gloucester was fought in the Pacific theater of World War II between Japanese and Allied forces on the island of New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, between 26 December 1943 and 16 January 1944.
Codenamed Operation Backhander, the US landing formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the main Allied strategy in the South West Pacific Area and Pacific Ocean Areas during 1943–1944.
It was the second landing the US 1st Marine Division had conducted during the war thus far, after Guadalcanal.
The objective of the operation was to capture the two Japanese airfields near Cape Gloucester that were defended by elements of the Japanese 17th Division.

Cape Peron is a headland at Rockingham, at the southern end of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia.
The cape is locally known as Point Peron, and is noted for its protected beaches, limestone cliffs, reefs and panoramic views.
Cape Peron includes the suburb of Peron, and Point Peron is the designation of a minor promontory on the south side of the cape's extremity.

Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteorologist on the expedition.
Royds subsequently rose to become an Admiral and was later Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London.
There is a hut at Cape Royds built and used by Ernest Shackleton and his team during their 1907–1909 expedition.

The Cape St.
George Light is a 72-foot (22 m) high brick lighthouse which had originally stood for 153 years on St.
George Island, Florida, until toppling into the Gulf of Mexico October 22, 2005.
The pieces of the lighthouse were retrieved, and in April 2008, the light's restoration was completed.

George Francis Train was an American entrepreneur who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War.

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the British-occupied Cape Colony.
He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets.

This is a list of the heritage sites in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, as recognized by the South African Heritage Resource Agency.

St George's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, and the seat of the Archbishop of Cape Town.
St.
George's Cathedral is both the extiw>metropolitical church of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and a congregation in the Diocese of Cape Town.