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Close ✕Cape of Good Hope
The rocky headland at the south-western corner of Africa that stands, in every account of the period, for the moment the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were shown to be one body of water.
-34.4, 18.5 · approximate · permanent feature; rounded by Dias in 1488
On the world
- A place in: Age of Exploration · 8 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is travelled to of Bartolomeu Dias — Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488 and sighted the cape on his homeward leg, establishing that the two oceans connect.
- is passes through of The Cape route (Carreira da Índia) — Every outbound and homebound India voyage rounded the southern tip of Africa, where the Atlantic wind regime gives way to the Agulhas current and the Indian Ocean monsoon.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates