{{Short description|Geographic feature in Florida}} thumb|Chart of Kice, Morgan, and Cape Romano islands, with Cape Romano on the South (right) end '''Cape Romano''' is a cape on the Gulf Coast of Florida, United States. It is on Cape Romano Island, one of a group of islands known collectively as Kice-Morgan Island.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas stated that the cape was named for Bernard Romans, who charted all of the coasts of East and West Florida in 1774. The feature is called "Cape Roman or Punta Larga" on Romans's 1774 map. John Lee Williams, in 1837, refers to the south point of "Isle Roman" as "Cape Roman" "of the British [charts]", and "Puerta Longa", "Punta Longa", and "Cape Acies" "of the Spanish charts".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Douglas |first=Marjory Stoneman |title=The Everglades: River of Grass |publisher=Hurricane House Publishers |year=1947 |location=Coconut, Florida |page=271}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillips |first=P. Lee |title=Notes on the Life and Works of Bernard Romans |publisher=The University Presses of Florida |year=1975 |edition=Facsimile |location=Gainesville, Florida |at=Third foldout segment of 1774 map at back of book |orig-date=1924}}</ref><ref name=ToF>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=John Lee |url=https://ia904703.us.archive.org/2/items/territoryofflori00will/territoryofflori00will.pdf |title=The Territory of Florida |publisher=A. T. Goodrich |year=1837 |location=New York |pages=v, 5, 8, 26, 28, 33}}</ref>
==Kice-Morgan Island== Kice-Morgan Island is located south of Marco Island, in Collier County. It is separated from Marco Island by Caxambas Bay. John Lee Williams called the island south of Caxambas Bay "Isle Roman", and described it as {{Convert|15|mi}} long and {{Convert|10 to 12|mi}} wide. The island complex consists of narrow barrier beaches with large mangrove mangals (forests) behind the beaches. The Kice Island barrier beach was {{convert|2.5|mi}} long in 1976, extending southsouthwest from Caxamabas Pass and Bay. Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano in 2005, bringing a {{Convert|10|ft|adj=on}} storm surge onto Kice Island. The storm opened an inlet, Morgan Pass, in the middle of the island. The southern portion of Kice Island is now called Morgan Island. In the decade following Hurricane Wilma, much of the beach on Morgan Island was eroded away. Some sand from the Kice-Morgan beaches has moved south, forming a spit at the southern end of Morgan Island. Other sand from the Kice-Morgan beaches has moved further south, onto the Cape Romano shoals south of the cape. As of 2023, the NOAA chart shows Cape Romano on Cape Romano Island, which lies behind the Morgan Island beach. The sand spit at the southern end of Morgan Island extends further south than Cape Romano Island.<ref name=ToF/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Carter |first=Luthor J. |date=May 14, 1976 |title=Wetlands: Denial of Marco Permits Fails to Resolve the Delimma |journal=Science |series=New Series |volume=192 |issue=4240 |page=644 |jstor=1741632}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hurricane Wilma DEP Report|url=https://floridadep.gov/sites/default/files/wilma1.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808105828/https://floridadep.gov/sites/default/files/wilma1.pdf |archive-date=2020-08-08 }}</ref><ref name=davis>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Richard A. Jr. |title=Barrier Islands of the Florida Gulf Coast Peninsula |publisher=Pineapple Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-56164-808-5 |location=Sarasota, Florida |pages=60–64}}</ref>
==Human presence== <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|300px|right|A pyramid-shaped house that stood on Cape Romano in the 1980s {{FFDC|CapeRomanoPyramid.png|log=2024 August 22}} --> The town of Muspa, a sub-chiefdom of the Calusa, may have been located on or near Cape Romano. One Spanish map gave the name "Punta de Muspa" to the cape, and descriptions of the location of the town fit the cape, as well. John Lee Williams reported plantations in the vicinity of Caxambas Bay in 1837, which led Charlton Tebeau to suggest there may have been one at Cape Romano. A military expedition in 1838 camped on Cape Romano at the site of a former settlement, where they found fresh water. The cape was later reported to have a reliable fresh water well, which was used by residents of the area. Joe Dickman lived on Cape Romano as a hermit from the 1930s until the 1960s. Several houses were built on or near Cape Romano in the 1970s and 1980s, but beach erosion left them in open water, and hurricanes have washed them away, including the Cape Romano Dome House.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hann |first=John H. |title=Indians of Central and South Florida 1513–1763 |year=2003 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville, Florida |page=29 |isbn=0-8130-2645-8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tebeau |first=Charlton W. |title=Man in the Everglades |publisher=University of Miami Press |year=1968 |edition=2nd |location=Coral Gables, Florida |pages=63, 64, 99, 125 |author-link=Charlton W. Tebeau}}</ref><ref name=davis/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lammers |first=Bob |date=September 11, 2008 |title=Son of Minister marched to the beat of a different drummer |work=The Community Post |url=http://archives.minsterhistoricalsociety.com/oldnewspapers/TheCommunityPost-2005to2014/2008/09%202008%20Community%20Post%20Sept%2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Arbogast |first=Ryan |date=2022-11-03 |title=Cape Romano Dome Homes sink due to Hurricane Ian |url=https://nbc-2.com/news/local/collier-county/2022/11/03/cape-romano-dome-homes-sink-due-to-hurricane-ian/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=NBC2 News |language=en-US}}</ref>
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{{Authority control}} {{Coord|25|50|43|N|81|40|43|W|display=title}} Romano Category:Landforms of Collier County, Florida