Spanish
Cape Canaveral
Florida (FL)est. 1962pop. 10,400/kayp kuh-NAV-er-uhl/
The meaning
“Place of cane / reed bed”
How it got the name
Spanish charts from the 1560s label the headland Cabo Canaveral, from canaveral, a place thick with cane or reeds. It is one of the oldest surviving European place-names in the United States. In 1963 it was renamed Cape Kennedy; Florida reversed the change in 1973 after ten years of public objection.
Former names
- Cabo Canaveral
- Cape Kennedy (1963-1973)
- Cape Canaveral