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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
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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.
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