Is Cape Cod Plymouth or are they different?

Question

I'm confused.

Did the pilgrims land at Cape Cod or Plymouth??

Answer 1

The Pilgrims landed at Provincetown, which is on the very tip of the Cape.  If you've never been to P-town, there's not much there in terms of pastureland or places to set up a town (at least not in 1600s).  So they kept going further West and landed at Plymouth (which you can see directly across the bay so it's not like it's very far).  

Plymouth actually sits north of the Cape and south of Boston.

Answer 2

They stopped of in Eastham in between P-town and Plymouth...

http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article...

Here's a map if you aren't exactly sure what Cape Cod/Plymouth looks like...

http://www.capecodchamber.org/getting-ar...

Plymouth is parallel with Wellfleet

Answer 3

Keep reading... the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod first, but the Pilgrims settled permanently in Plymouth later on. Cape Cod is a peninsula off the east coast of Massachusetts. Plymouth is a couple dozen miles from the beginning of the cape, but is not on the cape itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth,_M...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Cod

Answer 4

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.  Plymouth is on an area of the Massachusetts coast called the South Shore, which is just north of Cape Cod but not actually part of it.

Answer 5

Plymouth Rock Massachusetts is near cape cod but not actually part of it. Plymouth is the port in England which they sailed from.