Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador

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1. Story
2. A Portuguese caravel under Gil Eanes sailed south beyond Cape Bojador on the Saharan coast and returned, breaking a psychological rather than a physical barrier: the cape had a reputation among mariners as a point of no return, partly because the prevailing wind and current there make a coastal return northwards very difficult. The solution was the one that shaped the whole century — do not fight back up the coast, stand out to sea to find a favourable wind. Systematic voyaging down the African coast follows from this passage.
3. Knowledge
4. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
5. Caravel
6. Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador
7. Connections
8. Caravel
9. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
10. Carrack (nau)
11. Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador
12. The Atlantic wind and current system
13. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
14. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
15. Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador
16. Cabral sights the coast of Brazil
17. Evidence
18. The standard single-volume account of Portuguese expansion: Ceuta, the African coast, the Cape route, the carreira da Índia, the Estado da Índia and the institutions that ran them. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Boxer is a mid-twentieth-century imperial history and its framing has been substantially revised by later work, particularly on Asian agency and on the limits of Portuguese control; this pack uses it for structure, not for interpretation.