Cape Nome had received its name from a copying error, when a British mapmaker copied an annotation from a map made by a British officer had made on a voyage up the Bering Strait.

• 如果说冰岛的命名出于海盗们的私心，太平洋的命名出于麦哲伦的幸运，狮城的命名出于王子的艳遇，诺姆角的由来就有点无厘头了--笔误。