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Cape Ann was first mapped by the explorer [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]. He had given it the name ''Cape Tragabigzanda'', after his mistress in [[Istanbul]].{{cn|date=February 2020}} He had been taken as a [[prisoner of war]] and [[Slavery in the Ottoman Empire|enslaved in the Ottoman Empire]]. His mistress had fallen in love with him, but Smith later escaped in Russia.
When Smith presented his map to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], he suggested that Charles should feel free to [[geographical renaming|change any of the "barbarous names"]] (meaning the many [[List of Native American Place Names|Native American place names]] he had adopted) into English ones. The king made many such changes, but only four survive today. One was Cape Ann, which Charles named in honor of his mother [[Anne of Denmark]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Stewart |first= George R. |
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Cape Ann is also the location of main character's home in the book ''Trouble''.
Cape Ann is the title of the fifth and final section of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Landscapes," which lists the coastal birds of the region.<ref>Eliot, T. S. The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, Inc., 1971. pp. 95.</ref> Additionally, the title of his poem [[The Dry Salvages]] refers to a cluster of rocks "off the N.E. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts."<ref>{{cite news |last=Parker |first=James |date=2012-10-14 |title=A pilgrimage to T.S. Eliot’s Dry Salvages |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/10/13/pilgrimage-eliot-dry-salvages/DvyPv2qhFlK7dWQSGvAuHO/story.html |newspaper=The Boston Globe
The fictional town of Paradise, setting of the [[Jesse Stone (character)|Jesse Stone]] novels, is near Cape Ann, which is briefly mentioned in ''[[Night and Day (Parker novel)|Night and Day]]''.
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