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Comorin

American  
[kom-er-in] / ˈkɒm ər ɪn /

noun

  1. Cape, a cape on the S tip of India, extending into the Indian Ocean.


Comorin British  
/ ˈkɒmərɪn /

noun

  1. a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state

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The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean.

From Time Magazine Archive

In India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, is going to remain one solid, united entity in spite of everything and everybody."

From Time Magazine Archive

He laid down with precision one arc of the meridian from Cape Comorin to the village of Takoor-Kera, fifteen miles south-east of Ellichpoor.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Mahendra hill.—There is a peak of this name in the Travancore State, but too far from Cape Comorin.

From Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by K???ad?sa Kavir?ja Gosv?mi

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